PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["205", "124000"]

Abstract:
The described embodiments relate generally to aluminum films and pretreatments for improving the adhesion of aluminum films on substrate surfaces. Methods involve providing three-dimensional adhesion surfaces on the substrate that promote adhesion to a subsequently deposited aluminum film. The methods can avoid the use of strike materials, such as nickel and copper, used in conventional adhesion-promoting treatments. According to some embodiments, methods involve providing an aluminum oxide adhesion layer on the substrate prior to depositing aluminum. According to some embodiments, methods involve providing a zincating layer on the substrate prior to depositing aluminum. According some embodiments, methods involve roughening the surface of the substrate prior to depositing aluminum. Some embodiments involve a combination of two or more substrate pretreatments. Described methods can be used to provide more flexibility in subsequent anodizing processes. In some embodiments, methods involve anodizing the aluminum film and a portion of the substrate.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein forming the adhesion-promoting layer comprises:\n forming an aluminum oxide adhesion layer on the surface of the aluminum substrate, the aluminum oxide adhesion layer having a plurality of pores defined by a plurality of corresponding pore walls, wherein the plurality of pores have an average pore size sufficiently large to allow anchoring portions of the aluminum layer to form therein during the subsequent aluminum layer depositing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34783
- Patent Class: 205.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14768497', '14474021', '14342706', '14775016', '14593845']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7515072496124972
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875009967013372
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7251066243213812
- Mean Citation Score: 195.466636
- Max Citation Score: 211.72012
- Similarity Product: 156.01386253774402

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

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