PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927461
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["428", "544000"]

Abstract:
A bearing including a backing formed of a steel material, a lining formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a diffusion barrier layer disposed between the backing and the lining is provided. The diffusion barrier layer is formed of nickel or a nickel alloy and has a thickness ranging from 1 micron to 100 microns. The bearing is typically formed by cladding the lining or plating the steel backing with the diffusion barrier layer, bonding the lining and the backing with the diffusion barrier layer between, heating to a temperature of at least 400° C., and forming the bearing into a shape after or before the heating step.

Claim (Index 11):
A method according to  claim 7 , wherein iron-aluminum intermetallic phases are not formed during the heating step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14742987', '11006273', '14363453', '14223513', '14655026']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8947615680524822
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075891980765629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8560443310548902
- Mean Citation Score: 159.73884400000003
- Max Citation Score: 174.00507
- Similarity Product: 91.8612764707482

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

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