PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["174", "541000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are described for moving a tray within a confined space while the tray is bounded by a chassis. The movement of the tray is effected by a driven gear moving along a rack. A driving gear for rotating the driven gear is mounted on a handle or integral with a rotatable handle. The handle is rotatable about a pivot mounted on the chassis to provide the driving force to move the driven gear along the rack.

Claim (Index 20):
A mechanism for horizontally moving a tray confined within a limited space in a chassis comprising:\n a chassis; a moveable tray confined within said chassis, the moveable tray containing a plurality of connectors; and, a pair of rack and pinion mechanisms for moving the tray and the plurality of connectors in a horizontal direction within said chassis; wherein each pair of the rack and pinion mechanisms further comprises a first gear whereby the first gear is mounted upon said chassis; a rack, whereby the rack is mounted on the tray; wherein the first gear rotatably engaging its respective rack such that the first gear is capable of traversing its respective rack upon rotation of the first gear of each pair of the rack and pinion mechanisms; a U-shaped handle, which handle is pivotably mounted on the chassis; a second gear mounted upon each end of the U-shaped handle; each second gear respectively engaging the first gear of each pair of the rack and pinion mechanism, and capable of driving the first gear upon rotation of the handle; whereby rotation of the U-shaped handle about the pivot causes the tray to move in a horizontal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95349
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12090690', '12090561', '10808569', '14401807', '12921111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8253934251928796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744871932240782
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903028019959994
- Mean Citation Score: 170.779876
- Max Citation Score: 195.70476
- Similarity Product: 150.5720695997286

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