PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["296", "107090"]

Abstract:
A retractable canopy for a vehicle, the retractable canopy moving independently of a vehicle roll bar being retracted or raised. Canopies for weather protection both from excessive exposure to the sun and from precipitation are commonly used on many types of vehicles, which in many cases may be motorized. For safety reasons, and often also legal requirements, these vehicles may be equipped with a roll bar or similar structure to protect the operator of the vehicle from injury in the event that the vehicle rolls over. When the vehicle encounters a low-lying obstruction, the canopy may be quickly lowered to enable the vehicle to travel underneath and past the obstruction, after which the canopy may be quickly raised again. Raising or lowering of the canopy is independent of whether the roll bar is raised or lowered, and raising or lowering of the roll bar is independent of the canopy position.

Claim (Index 4):
A retractable canopy assembly for a vehicle, comprising:\n a canopy mounting structure, the canopy mounting structure being attached to the vehicle; a canopy support bracket, the canopy support bracket being attached to the canopy mounting structure; and a canopy sub-assembly, including:\n a front canopy support, having a first pivoting connection to the canopy support bracket; \n a rear canopy support, having a second pivoting connection to the canopy support bracket; and \n a canopy, having a first connection to the front canopy support, and having a second connection to the rear canopy support; and \n in which the canopy is movable to a raised canopy position by pivoting the front and rear canopy supports in a first direction and the canopy is movable to a lowered canopy position by pivoting the front and rear canopy supports in a second direction, the second direction being opposite from the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.025
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13117702', '15420051', '10993038', '14109579', '12625431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8093255113449298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666294864847128
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750559088589082
- Mean Citation Score: 232.56305000000003
- Max Citation Score: 252.87067
- Similarity Product: 191.5381662274176

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