PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["188", "316000"]

Abstract:
A vibration damper, which can be utilized in a chassis of a vehicle, may comprise a damper tube and a working piston that is guided in a longitudinal axis over an inner side of the damper tube. The vibration damper may also include a reinforcing sleeve that is positioned on an outer side of the damper tube. A receptive fork for attachment to the chassis can be arranged on the reinforcing sleeve. The reinforcing sleeve may be delimited in a direction of the longitudinal axis by a peripheral edge. In a region of the peripheral edge, a sealing element enclosing the outer side of the damper tube may be accommodated in the reinforcing sleeve. The peripheral edge may have a plastically deformed reshaping section that engages around the sealing element.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for positioning a reinforcing sleeve on an outer side of a damper tube of a vibration damper for a chassis of a vehicle, wherein the reinforcing sleeve extends over a subsection of the damper tube, wherein a receptive fork for attachment to the chassis is positionable on the outer side of the reinforcing sleeve, wherein a working piston of the vibration damper is received in the damper tube and is guided in a longitudinal axis over an inner side of the damper tube, wherein the reinforcing sleeve terminates in a direction of the longitudinal axis with a peripheral edge, wherein the method comprises:\n providing the reinforcing sleeve with a groove in a region of the peripheral edge; providing the damper tube; positioning the reinforcing sleeve on the outer side of the damper tube; positioning a sealing element in the groove from the direction of the longitudinal axis; and plastically deforming the peripheral edge such that a reshaping section of the reinforcing sleeve engages around the sealing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24194
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11571545', '14624724', '12063601', '14350046', '14647371']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8447611152896737
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4448921655397609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8047742203146824
- Mean Citation Score: 169.823684
- Max Citation Score: 190.52563
- Similarity Product: 152.14260839523436

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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