PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971953
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["188", "275000"]

Abstract:
A damper for a bicycle, having a primary unit including a damper tube, a piston rod that supports a main piston, a reservoir tube that is outside of the compression chamber of the primary tube, and an inertial valve within the reservoir tube. The damper also includes a flow path connecting the reservoir fluid chamber and the compression chamber of the primary tube. The damper also may have a damping valve in the reservoir tube. When the inertia valve is open, the damping valve opens before flow through the inertia valve is maximized. The main piston and the damper tube at least partially define a compression chamber and a rebound chamber. The main piston is movable within the damper chamber of the primary unit. The reservoir tube includes a reservoir fluid chamber. The inertial valve is responsive to terrain-induced forces and not responsive to rider-induced forces when the shock absorber is assembled to the bicycle.

Claim (Index 12):
A damper for a bicycle, comprising:\n a primary unit comprising a damper tube, the damper tube comprising a compression chamber; a piston rod that supports a main piston, wherein the main piston is movable within the compression chamber of the damper tube; a reservoir tube that is outside of the compression chamber of the damper tube, the reservoir tube comprising a reservoir fluid chamber; an inertia valve within the reservoir tube, the inertia valve being responsive to terrain-induced forces and not responsive to rider-induced forces when the damper is assembled to the bicycle; a damping valve within the reservoir tube, the damping valve comprising:\n a flow housing defining a valve chamber, the valve chamber having a first end and a second end; \n one or more refill ports positioned adjacent the first end of the valve chamber; and \n one or more compression flow passages positioned adjacent the second end of the valve chamber; \n a compression flow path that allows fluid to flow from the compression chamber of the damper tube to the reservoir fluid chamber of the reservoir tube, the compression flow path passing through the valve chamber and the one or more compression flow passages; and a refill flow path that allows fluid to flow from the reservoir fluid chamber of the reservoir tube to the compression chamber of the damper tube, the refill flow path passing through the one or more refill ports and the valve chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353543', '14631622', '11771899', '12197171', '11771918']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9069940067322582
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5941660905389771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.87571121511293
- Mean Citation Score: 583.301432
- Max Citation Score: 617.2165
- Similarity Product: 528.0401833134888

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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