PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "401000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is an impact vehicle restraint with a hook and auxiliary locking mechanism that combine to secure the RIG bar of a trailer to a loading dock. A motor rotates the hook between retracted and extended positions. When extended, the hook secures and holds the RIG bar to the dock. When the hook is extended, the auxiliary locking mechanism is also extended to and held at a set position by a biasing mechanism. When the hook is blocked by an obstruction, forward movement of the trailer causes the RIG bar and the obstruction to slide into engagement with the auxiliary locking mechanism, which accepts the RIG bar and obstruction and moves to a locked position to secure the RIG bar. The retraction of the hook by the motor overpowers the biasing mechanism and causes the retraction of the auxiliary locking mechanism.

Claim (Index 22):
The trailer restraint of  claim 21 , and wherein said carriage has a stop, and wherein during said deployment phase of operation said biasing mechanism biasingly holds said securing mechanism against said stop in said set position, and wherein during the RIG holding phase of operation for the certain disengagement events said securing mechanism rotates away from said stop and into said locked position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59322
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12655339', '15079969', '11327986', '15013579', '13330209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8836031021526011
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5497747150814234
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8502202634454833
- Mean Citation Score: 358.77870199999984
- Max Citation Score: 465.35052
- Similarity Product: 317.5464799105025

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