PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["188", "058000"]

Abstract:
A brake lining includes friction structures, back boards fastened to respective the friction structures, a base plate supporting the friction structures. Each of the friction structures includes two adjacent friction portions with a groove formed in the front surface in between, and a thin portion with a smaller thickness than thicknesses of the friction portions, the thin portion located in a position corresponding to the groove. Each of the friction structures is supported by the base plate on two support points located in the two friction portions respectively. The thin portion has a constant length, the length being equal to a maximum width of the friction portions and satisfying a condition that L/D is equal to or greater than 1.1, where D denotes the length of the thin portion and L denotes a distance between the two support points located in the friction portions.

Claim (Index 3):
A disk brake comprising:\n a brake disk fastened to a wheel or an axle of a railway vehicle; and the brake lining according to  claim 1  to be pressed against a sliding surface of the brake disk.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29851
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14123260', '14378105', '14394500', '14390033', '13605004']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8220177386828762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4414055447398524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7839565192885738
- Mean Citation Score: 177.73359999999997
- Max Citation Score: 201.97243
- Similarity Product: 169.53001035882116

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