PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16282890
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["475", "230000"]

Abstract:
An axle assembly having a drive pinion that may be rotatably supported by first and second sets of roller bearing elements. A preload element may exert a preload force on at least one of the first and second sets of roller bearing elements. The preload element may be disposed on the drive pinion in an inboard direction from the yoke.

Claim (Index 1):
An axle assembly comprising:\n a housing; a drive pinion that is rotatable about an axis with respect to the housing, the drive pinion including:\n a gear portion; and \n a shaft portion that extends from the gear portion; \n a first set of roller bearing elements disposed in the housing that rotatably support the shaft portion; a second set of roller bearing elements disposed in the housing between the first set of roller bearing elements and the gear portion that rotatably support the shaft portion; a yoke that is at least partially disposed outside the housing, wherein the yoke receives the shall portion; a yoke retainer that couples the yoke to the shaft portion; and a preload element that exerts a preload force on at least one of the first set of roller bearing elements and the second set of roller bearing elements, wherein the preload element is disposed on the drive pinion in an inboard direction from the yoke, the inboard direction extending along the axis from the yoke toward the gear portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.575
- Patent Class: 475.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15455369', '14629614', '14244117', '14205535', '15151831']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7269462552451622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007874594053726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7043303756611833
- Mean Citation Score: 251.873494
- Max Citation Score: 321.61435
- Similarity Product: 299.04011974954307

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