PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742863
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["280", "780000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle fitted with a steering device including a steering mechanism protected by a steering casing, the steering casing itself being housed in an engine compartment that is separated from the interior of the vehicle by a dashboard, the steering device also including a steering wheel, located in the interior, and to which the steering mechanism is connected by a steering column that extends out of the steering casing and passes through the dashboard, the vehicle including, in order to provide a seal around the steering column, between the steering casing and the dashboard, an elastomeric coupling gasket including, in a single piece, a central first sealing ring that surrounds and clamps around the steering column and a peripheral second sealing ring that is inserted between the steering casing and the dashboard, at a distance from and around the first sealing ring.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle comprising a passenger compartment intended to accommodate at least one driver, the vehicle being equipped with a steering device which comprises a steering mechanism protected by a steering casing, the steering casing being itself housed in a compartment of the vehicle, which is separated from the passenger compartment by at least one partition wall called \u201cbulkhead\u201d, the steering device also comprising a steering wheel, located in the passenger compartment, steering wheel to which the steering mechanism is connected by means of a steering column which emerges from the steering casing and which crosses the bulkhead, the vehicle includes, in order to ensure the sealing around the steering column, between the steering casing and the bulkhead, a coupling seal made of elastomer material which comprises, integrally, on the one hand, a first central sealing ring which surrounds and clasps the steering column and through which the steering column passes across the coupling seal and, on the other hand, a second peripheral sealing ring which is interposed between the steering casing and the bulkhead, at a distance and around the first sealing ring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10976055', '16309035', '10586091', '12197670', '15556876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8057026646476947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744568479940984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.772578082982335
- Mean Citation Score: 162.76661800000005
- Max Citation Score: 173.44433999999995
- Similarity Product: 126.33003272830008

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

Dataset: test