PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111654
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["285", "093000"]

Abstract:
An expansion joint comprising a hollow elastomeric body having coupling flanges at each open end configured to connect to flanges of a pipe system. The hollow elastomeric body is comprised of a material comprising an elastomer and fibers. A stretchable sensor is located within the material of the hollow elastomeric body. The sensor is configured to provide a varying electrical characteristic when the sensor is stretched, contracts and deteriorates or wears. An analysis circuit is connected to the sensor, the analysis circuit configured to receive the varying electrical characteristic and to emit a signal corresponding to a level of the electrical characteristic received by the analysis circuit.

Claim (Index 1):
An expansion joint comprising:\n a fluid conductive hollow elastomeric body having coupling elements in the form of flanges at each open end configured to connect with flanges at open ends of pipes of a pipe system,\n the hollow elastomeric body being comprised of a material comprising an elastomer, \n at least one stretchable sensor located on a surface of the hollow elastomeric body,\n the sensor having two spaced apart electrodes and an intervening element, the element configured to provide a varying electrical characteristic when the sensor is stretched, contracted, and deteriorated or worn, and an electrical potential is applied to the electrodes, and \n an analysis circuit connected to the electrodes, the analysis circuit configured to receive the varying electrical characteristic and to emit a signal corresponding to a level of the electrical characteristic received by the analysis circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14551868', '15113438', '10614329', '12524312', '10795053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7600544174965388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.3835960289938746
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7224085786462724
- Mean Citation Score: 147.995684
- Max Citation Score: 275.6439
- Similarity Product: 268.4229672830701

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