PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16335818
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["192", "058610"]

Abstract:
A viscous clutch includes an input member, an output member, a working chamber defined between the input member and the output member, a reservoir to hold a supply of a shear fluid fluidically connected to the working chamber by a fluid circuit, a valve that is electromagnetically actuatable to selectively control a flow of the shear fluid along the fluid circuit, a control coil assembly, and a securing mechanism. The control coil assembly includes a modular center hub removably attached to the input member, an electromagnetic coil and a coil bearing rotatably supporting the electromagnetic coil on the modular center hub. The securing mechanism is removably attached to the input member radially inward of the working chamber and the reservoir, and includes a radially outwardly extending flange.

Claim (Index 17):
A viscous clutch comprising:\n a housing having a housing hub; a rotor disk; a stub shaft rotationally fixed to the rotor disk, wherein the stub shaft is concentric with the housing hub and axially overlaps the housing hub; a bearing set positioned between the stub shaft and the housing hub; a working chamber defined between the housing and the rotor disk; a reservoir to hold a supply of a shear fluid, the reservoir fluidically connected to the working chamber by a fluid circuit, wherein the reservoir is carried by the housing and rotates at all times with the housing; a valve, wherein the valve is electromagnetically actuatable to selectively control a flow of the shear fluid between the reservoir and the working chamber along the fluid circuit such that a torque coupling between the housing and the rotor disk can be created as a function of a volume of the shear fluid present in the working chamber; and a control coil assembly removably attached to the housing, the control coil assembly including an electromagnetic coil; and a securing mechanism attached to the housing hub, wherein the securing mechanism comprises a bushing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42105
- Patent Class: 192.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16309010', '15758478', '14428255', '14657738', '14775002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8468179262110241
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4621204346062993
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8083481770505516
- Mean Citation Score: 283.566054
- Max Citation Score: 296.57672
- Similarity Product: 240.00824528149607

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

Dataset: test