PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16395012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["267", "064110"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for a shock absorber for a vehicle having a gas spring with first and second gas chambers, wherein the first chamber is utilized during a first travel portion of the shock absorber and the first and second chambers are both utilized during a second portion of travel. In one embodiment, a travel adjustment assembly is configured to selectively communicate a first gas chamber with a negative gas chamber.

Claim (Index 1):
A pressure-sensitive shock absorber for a vehicle comprising:\n a gas spring having a main gas chamber and a secondary gas chamber, said secondary gas chamber separated from said main gas chamber by a sealed positionally-fixed bulkhead, a volume of said secondary gas chamber not altered by movement of said pressure-sensitive shock absorber; a first valve disposed along a first fluid path coupling said main gas chamber and said secondary gas chamber, said first valve having an open position which allows fluid to flow from said main gas chamber to said secondary gas chamber when a pressure in said main gas chamber reaches a preset pressure, said first valve having a closed position which prevents said fluid from flowing from said main gas chamber to said secondary gas chamber; a user-operable adjustment rod coupled with said first valve, said user-operable adjustment rod configured to control a compression placed on said first valve to select said preset pressure; and a second valve disposed along a second fluid path coupling said main gas chamber and said secondary gas chamber, said second valve having an open position which allows said fluid to flow from said secondary gas chamber to said main gas chamber, said second valve having a closed position which prevents said fluid from flowing from said secondary gas chamber to said main gas chamber, said main gas chamber and said secondary gas chamber operable in combination to increase a range travel for said pressure-sensitive shock absorber during which said pressure-sensitive shock absorber achieves a linear portion of a spring curve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94872
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15597875', '14849143', '13751879', '13005474', '12407610']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7269075198174667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5266680229408655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7068835701298066
- Mean Citation Score: 175.32813800000002
- Max Citation Score: 198.50255
- Similarity Product: 197.63464938688875

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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