PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["188", "25000B"]

Abstract:
A method for the production of braking elements for vehicles, in particular brake pads, includes a die forming step by means of fine and/or traditional shearing of a metal support and a molding step upon the metal support of a block of friction material. The friction material is selected from the group of asbestos free materials, while the metal plate is made of an aluminum alloy selected from the group consisting of aluminum alloys subjected to precipitation hardening (age-hardening alloys) and is made from the fine and/or traditional shearing of a metal sheet when the alloy is in a solubilized state. The alloy is not age hardened until a friction material baking step in order to gain the mechanical properties needed for its operation.

Claim (Index 5):
A braking element for braking systems of vehicles in which the braking element comprises a metal support and block of friction material disposed on a first side of the metal support, the braking element being made by the process of:\n i) die forming the metal support by means of shearing, the metal support being formed of an aluminum alloy selected from a group consisting of aluminum alloys suitable for precipitation or age-hardening, the aluminum alloy being in a completely or partially solubilized state; ii) mold forming the block of friction material on the first side of the metal support facing, in use, an element to be braked, and in which the step of mold forming the block of friction material comprises heat treating the block of friction material to form it integral to the metal support, the friction material being selected from a group of asbestos free friction materials; and iii) precipitation or age-hardening the aluminum alloy during the heat treating portion of the step of mold forming the block of friction material, wherein the heat treating is carried out at a temperature that makes the precipitation or age-hardening occur.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80822
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14519761', '10662836', '10849525', '14189050', '13011957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8562957491577717
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229991302180665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8229660872638013
- Mean Citation Score: 237.05972000000003
- Max Citation Score: 411.99924
- Similarity Product: 385.0216796532869

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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