PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027613
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["440", "075000"]

Abstract:
An outboard motor for a marine vessel application, transmission devices for such an outboard motor, and related methods of making, operating, and modifying attributes of same, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the motor includes a horizontal-crankshaft engine in an upper portion of the motor, positioned substantially above a trimming axis of the motor. In at least another embodiment, first, second and third transmission devices are employed to transmit rotational power from the engine to propeller(s). In at least a further embodiment, the motor is made to include a rigid interior assembly formed by the engine, multiple transmission devices, and a further structural component. In further embodiments, the motor includes numerous cooling, exhaust, and/or oil system components, and/or other transmission features. In at least some additional embodiments, a transmission device of the motor is configured to facilitate gear ratio variation and/or includes an integrated oil pump.

Claim (Index 19):
A transmission device for implementation in an outboard motor configured to be mounted on a marine vessel, the transmission device comprising:\n a plurality of power train components including a plurality of gears and a plurality of shafts, the plurality of shafts including an input shaft and an output shaft, wherein the power train components are arranged so that input rotation of the input shaft results in output rotation of the output shaft; a primary housing portion within which the plurality of power train components are at least partly positioned; a secondary housing portion that is configured to be affixable to and removable from the primary housing portion, wherein the primary housing portion and the secondary housing portion are configured so that the secondary housing when affixed to the primary housing covers over an opening with the secondary housing portion; and an oil pump that is formed as part of the transmission device, wherein the transmission device with the oil pump is configured so that the oil pump is driven to pressurize and output oil when the transmission device is operating to communicate rotational power.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95506
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13861918', '15806599', '13831070', '14831634', '13026203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6885580685688596
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5828412315497251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6779863848669462
- Mean Citation Score: 450.9045319999999
- Max Citation Score: 499.32214000000016
- Similarity Product: 420.4601385612226

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

Dataset: test