PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["303", "020000"]

Abstract:
A shock absorber has a valve controlling the flow rate of fluid between a first chamber and a second chamber. The shock absorber may include a blocker that has a variable profile. The blocker may be rotatable using an external adjuster to position the blocker to variably occlude an aperture and vary the damping of the suspension. A bias may also be positioned adjacent the blocker to allow force from the fluid to move the blocker and expose the aperture, thereby allowing fluid to flow through the entirety of the aperture.

Claim (Index 37):
A suspension system of a vehicle comprising:\n (a) a first chamber; (b) a second chamber; and (c) a valve for controlling flow of a substantially incompressible fluid between the first chamber and the second chamber, the valve comprising:\n (1) a valve body having a sidewall at least partially defining an aperture that defines a fluid flow path between the first chamber and the second chamber, the valve body extending to a valve body opening; \n (2) a blocker disposed in the valve body and having a first end, a second end, and an axis about which the blocker is rotatable and along which the blocker is displaceable into a plurality of axial positions; \n (3) an adjuster attached to the blocker and configured to adjustably rotate the blocker; and \n (4) a bias capable of exerting an axial force on the second end of the blocker in a first direction toward the first end of the blocker; \n wherein the sidewall and the first end of the blocker at least partially define a void within the sidewall adjacent a lower edge of the aperture and extending towards the valve body opening; and \n wherein the bias may be overcome only by a fluid pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 116.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 303.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15084757', '15398286', '13774086', '11501996', '14676071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541036902457237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5461415680559343
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7333074780267448
- Mean Citation Score: 254.984958
- Max Citation Score: 420.25638
- Similarity Product: 324.4143351954353

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

Dataset: test