PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875445
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["014", "073100"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a finger joint having a bridging cover plate, which enables a steel plate having a thickness much smaller than that of a conventional finger to be used and allows the vertical rotation of an upper bridge structure. The finger joint includes: a bridging cover plate installed on a first structure and supported to a second structure across a gap so as to support a load of a vehicle passing over the gap, and configured to allow relative movement between the first structure and the second structure in a direction in which the distance of the gap changes; a first finger unit connected to the bridging cover plate; and a second finger unit installed on the second structure so as to allow relative movement relative to the first finger unit in a direction in which the distance of the gap changes.

Claim (Index 1):
A finger joint installed between a first structure and a second structure, which are disposed with a gap therebetween, a distance of which changes as the first structure and the second structure are expanded or contracted due to temperature change or the like or as the first structure and the second structure are moved by an earthquake or the like, so as to enable a vehicle to smoothly pass over the gap, the finger joint comprising:\n a bridging cover plate installed on the first structure and supported to the second structure across the gap so as to support a load of a vehicle passing over the gap, and configured to allow relative movement between the first structure and the second structure in a direction in which the distance of the gap changes; a first finger unit including a plurality of first fingers connected to the bridging cover plate and supported by the second structure, and a plurality of first finger grooves each formed between neighboring the first fingers; and a second finger unit including a plurality of second fingers configured to be inserted into the first finger grooves, respectively, and a plurality of second finger grooves each formed between neighboring the second fingers, the second finger unit being installed on the second structure so as to allow relative movement relative to the first finger unit in a direction in which the distance of the gap changes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40323
- Patent Class: 14.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15117633', '15262082', '16061889', '11814955', '16072186']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5704491350926455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5546571413745871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5688699357208397
- Mean Citation Score: 160.35243400000004
- Max Citation Score: 166.16783
- Similarity Product: 101.39729159709276

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

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