PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["277", "442000"]

Abstract:
A piston ring may include a drawn metal base of constant thickness having an outer peripheral surface. The piston ring may also include a hard coating disposed on the outer peripheral surface. The coating may have a thickness that is greater in a region of two butt ends of the base than a thickness of the coating in another region of the outer peripheral surface. The coating may be defined by a plurality of layers with a nanoscale structure.

Claim (Index 8):
The piston ring as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a region adjacent to a region of a first butt end of the two butt ends has a coating thickness of at least 55 \u03bcm and a region adjacent to a region of a second butt end of the two butt ends has a coating thickness of at least 55 \u03bcm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88636
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15517901', '10451732', '14437943', '15131017', '14379286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8040542495984001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4745001181098653
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7710988364495466
- Mean Citation Score: 190.968234
- Max Citation Score: 233.7321
- Similarity Product: 205.57488446295253

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

Dataset: test