PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["072", "039000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an endless metal ring manufacturing method for manufacturing an endless metal ring by carrying out a barrel polishing step for polishing the endless metal ring by using a barrel of a resin material, a rolling step for rolling the endless metal ring which was cleaned, and a nitriding step for nitriding the endless metal ring which was rolled, wherein after the barrel polishing step and before the rolling step, provided is a resin removing step for removing resin that has adhered to the endless metal ring.

Claim (Index 1):
An endless metal ring manufacturing method including:\n a barrel polishing step of polishing an endless metal ring by use of a barrel made of resin; a rolling step of rolling the endless metal ring having been washed; and a nitriding step of nitriding the rolled endless metal ring, wherein the manufacturing method further includes a resin removal step of removing the resin that has adhered to the endless metal ring, the resin removal step is performed after the barrel polishing step and before the rolling step, the resin removal step includes soaking the endless metal ring into a liquid to perform ultrasonic washing; and the resin removal step includes rotating the endless metal ring in a circumferential direction about an axis of the endless metal ring to wash the endless metal ring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38462
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14418104', '14898586', '13063840', '10644087', '13518997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7276655751887975
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071117015115242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7056101878210702
- Mean Citation Score: 169.46041200000005
- Max Citation Score: 202.50108
- Similarity Product: 110.5882579217577

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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