PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["433", "009000"]

Abstract:
An element intended for an orthodontic system comprises: a fixing surface to be attached to the wall of a tooth; a body, having sides counterposed with respect to the fixing surface and defining a groove passing through sides, for housing an arch wire that can be removed and protrudes while being kept in the groove through at least one of sides with respect of the element; a slit passing through the sides toward the groove in order to assemble the archwire in the groove. In this way the play between the arch wire and the hole is lower than the space between the archwire and the groove, in order to keep the archwire in the body.

Claim (Index 1):
Orthodontic kit comprising an archwire ( 8 ); and a plurality of elements ( 7 ) at least one of which comprises a fixing surface ( 9 ) for adhering to the wall of a tooth, a body ( 10 ) having sides ( 17 ,  18 ) opposite to the fixing surface ( 9 ) and defining a seating groove ( 11 ) passing between the sides ( 17 ,  18 ) for removably seating an archwire ( 8 ) which, seated in the groove ( 11 ) with a play along its axis, protrudes with respect to the element ( 7 ) through at least one of the sides ( 17 ,  18 ), and a slit ( 12 ) passing between the two sides ( 17 ,  18 ) and towards the groove ( 11 ) for mounting the archwire in the groove ( 11 ) through an elastic deformation of the archwire ( 8 ) deflecting its own axis whilst the element ( 7 ) remains undeformed; the slit ( 12 ) having longitudinal edges ( 13 ,  14 ) having a minimum distance (d) less than the minimum dimension (D) of the groove ( 11 ) along the direction of measurement of the minimum distance (d) so that a mounting clearance of the archwire with the slit ( 12 ) is lower than that with the seating groove ( 11 ) to retain the archwire ( 8 ) in the body ( 10 ); wherein the body ( 10 ) comprises at least two walls ( 19 ,  701 ) and the slit (  11 ) extends on both walls so that the longitudinal edges ( 13 ,  14 ) of the slit ( 12 ) converge towards both of the sides ( 17 ,  18 ) and follow a three- dimensional path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96825
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12147877', '10770799', '14465590', '11379293', '15323522']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6152389220210237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712696893587138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6008419987547928
- Mean Citation Score: 155.995204
- Max Citation Score: 159.33952
- Similarity Product: 114.73489657440184

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

Dataset: test