PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["474", "091000"]

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a chain and a chain transmission device capable of reducing sliding resistance of the chain to a guide lip portion and stably maintaining an oil film between the guide lip portion and an outer plate. Provided is a chain  20  wherein a plurality of link plates  40  and  60  include outer plates  60 , each of the outer plates  60  has a pair of front and rear pin holes  61  into which connecting pins  50  are inserted, a guide-side end surface  62  that faces the side of a traveling guide surface  81 a  of a chain guide  80 , and a concave portion  63  that is formed in an outer surface of the outer plate  60 , and the concave portion  63  is formed in an area between the pin holes  61  and the guide-side end surface  62  in a plate height direction.

Claim (Index 4):
The chain according to  claim 1 , wherein the concave portion is formed in plurality so as to be arranged in the chain longitudinal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15278
- Patent Class: 474.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14552683', '12125451', '12188404', '14935741', '11820047']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7911182401981606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818465676589171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7601910729442362
- Mean Citation Score: 196.675526
- Max Citation Score: 211.61551
- Similarity Product: 151.309738395797

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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