PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16070234
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "135000"]

Abstract:
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to an IP 55 rated enclosure that does not use a rubber O-ring or comparable elastomeric sealing member disposed between pieces of the enclosure to provide sealing. Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to an IP 55 compliant sealing interface that includes mating sealing profiles made of the identical materials. A further aspect of the present disclosure relates to an enclosure having jet stream redirecting structures that prevent spray from a water jet from being sprayed directly into an ingress path defined by a sealing interface. A further aspect of the present disclosure relates to a sealing interface provided by an interference-fit between two plastic profiles which create pressure on the interface keeping it closed while concurrently including angled surfaces so that greater tolerances are allowed.

Claim (Index 31):
An enclosure comprising:\n a housing including a first housing piece and a second housing piece that mate together at a sealing interface to define an enclosed interior of the housing, the first housing piece including a main body and a first perimeter sealing element unitarily formed with the main body of the first housing piece, the second housing piece including a main body and a second perimeter sealing element unitarily formed with the main body of the second housing piece, the first sealing element defining a first sealing profile and the second sealing element defining a second sealing profile, the first and second sealing profiles interlocking at the sealing interface when the first and second housing pieces are mated together, the interlocked first and second sealing profiles defining an ingress path having an inner end adjacent the interior region of the housing and an outer end spaced from the inner end by a length of the ingress path, the first and second sealing profiles defining inner and outer perimeter sealing regions and an expanded intermediate water pressure relief cavity positioned along the ingress path, the intermediate water pressure relief channel being positioned between the inner and outer sealing regions, the outer end of the ingress path facing at least partially toward the main body of the first or second housing piece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69512
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14116698', '13859076', '15369399', '15760204', '15760208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8158297554712051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4747094258192523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7817177225060098
- Mean Citation Score: 210.14832400000003
- Max Citation Score: 223.82042
- Similarity Product: 193.097890872246

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

Dataset: test