PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["174", "668000"]

Abstract:
A grommet includes: a tapered tube portion that is to be inserted, with an electric wire group W passed therethrough, into a flange from a cabin-outside and attached thereto so as to prevent the entrance of water; and a panel fitting portion that is formed in an outer face portion on a base end side of the tapered tube portion, and is to be fitted to the flange. The fitting portion includes: a ring-shaped groove portion that accomodates a portion on the leading end face side of the flange; an arcuate rib that is formed continuously with a tapered tube outer face portion; a ring-shaped flat face portion that is formed continuously with the arcuate rib; and an auxiliary seal portion that is formed continuously with the ring-shaped flat face portion, and protrudes toward the cabin-inside relative to the ring-shaped flat face portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A grommet to be inserted, with an electric wire group passed therethrough, to a flange from a cabin-outside and attached thereto so as to prevent entrance of water, the flange being formed in a partition wall panel for partitioning the cabin-outside and a cabin-inside and having a tapered tubular shape that protrudes from the partition wall panel toward the cabin-inside, the grommet comprising:\n a tapered tube portion whose tube diameter gradually increases from a leading end side toward a base end side in an insertion direction; and a fitting portion formed in an outer face portion on the base end side of the tapered tube portion, the fitting portion being to be fitted to the flange, wherein the fitting portion includes: a ring-shaped groove portion that is formed so as to accommodate, when attached to the flange, a portion on a leading end face side of the flange; a tapered tube outer face portion that is formed continuously with the ring-shaped groove portion, and comes, when attached to the flange, into close contact with a portion on a small diameter side of a reference tapered tube face that coincides with a tapered tube inner face portion of the flange; a first seal portion that is formed continuously with the tapered tube outer face portion, has linear sides in portions on both sides of a remainder portion of the reference tapered tube face, has a center portion having an arcuate cross-sectional shape that protrudes outward, and is pressed, when attached to the flange, by the tapered tube inner face portion of the flange and comes into close contact therewith; a ring-shaped flat face portion that is formed continuously with the first seal portion, and faces, when attached to the flange, the partition wall panel while surrounding an outer side of the flange; and a second seal portion that is formed continuously with an outer circumferential end of the ring-shaped flat face portion, and protrudes toward the cabin-inside relative to the ring-shaped flat face portion, while forming a ring shape that surrounds the ring-shaped flat face portion, the ring-shaped groove portion is configured so that, when accommodating the portion on the leading end face side of the flange, the portion on the leading end face side of the flange enters a state of biting into the ring-shaped groove portion in a leading end direction, and the first seal portion is deformed, when attached to the flange, to enter the state of biting while pushing up the tapered tube inner face portion in a direction perpendicular to the reference tapered tube face by means of a reaction force exerted against the center portion being pressed by the tapered tube inner face portion of the flange.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13880551', '11033742', '10721356', '16073610', '14666970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393453513793339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879707311006415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8042078893514647
- Mean Citation Score: 222.064264
- Max Citation Score: 247.3885
- Similarity Product: 196.66051694792512

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

Dataset: test