PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["175", "073000"]

Abstract:
A slip ring apparatus including a ring assembly having a conductive ring with a conductive ring engagement surface, a contact assembly having a contact element with a contact element engagement surface for engaging with the conductive ring engagement surface, and a surface discontinuity provided in at least one of the conductive ring engagement surface and the contact element engagement surface. An apparatus including the slip ring apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a housing having an interior and a shaft rotatably extending through the interior of the housing. A method for reducing the potential of a hydroplaning effect in a slip ring apparatus, including providing a surface discontinuity in at least one of a conductive ring engagement surface and a contact element engagement surface.

Claim (Index 12):
An apparatus comprising:\n (a) a housing having an interior; (b) a shaft rotatably extending through the interior of the housing; (c) a slip ring apparatus for transferring electrical energy between the housing and the shaft, the slip ring apparatus comprising:\n (i) a ring assembly associated with one of the housing and the shaft, wherein the ring assembly is comprised of an electrically conductive ring, and wherein the conductive ring is comprised of a conductive ring engagement surface; \n (ii) a contact assembly associated with the other of the housing and the shaft, wherein the contact assembly is comprised of an electrically conductive contact element for engaging with the conductive ring, wherein the contact element is an elongated flat metal strip, and wherein the contact element is comprised of a contact element engagement surface for engaging with the conductive ring engagement surface; and \n (iii) a surface discontinuity provided in at least the contact element engagement surface, wherein the surface discontinuity is comprised of a texture in the contact element engagement surface which interrupts a smoothness in the contact element engagement surface without preventing a continuous electrical connection between the conductive ring and the contact element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02326
- Patent Class: 175.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177700', '14079158', '15125792', '14078880', '10953759']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6999229445774945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488814264729462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6788120765926913
- Mean Citation Score: 242.471242
- Max Citation Score: 298.18448
- Similarity Product: 249.1983967257309

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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