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 8):
The vehicle according to  claim 1  wherein the first central sealing ring is connected to the second peripheral sealing ring by means of a layer formed integrally with said first and second sealing rings and in that the layer has, on one of its faces called \u00abfirst face\u00bb which is oriented toward and bears against the steering casing, at least one elastic anchoring lug, distinct from the first sealing ring, and which cooperates with the steering casing by snap-fitting in order to retain the coupling seal against the steering casing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10976055', '16309035', '10586091', '12197670', '15556876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8246911254619199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4698185306266323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7892038659783912
- Mean Citation Score: 162.76661800000005
- Max Citation Score: 173.44433999999995
- Similarity Product: 134.14868753757472

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