PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882891
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["310", "071000"]

Abstract:
A drive apparatus is provided which includes a motor and a control unit. The control unit has a heat sink secured to a cover. The motor is equipped with leads extending toward the control unit through a housing. The control unit has a substrate which is equipped with connectors detachably joined to the leads, thereby eliminating soldering or welding to achieve an electrical connection of the motor and the control unit. Such a connection is accomplished by inserting the leads into the connectors, thus eliminating the need for a special and large-sized equipment and resulting in a decrease in production cost of the drive apparatus. The non-destructive disassembling of the motor and the control unit is achieved by disengaging them from each other to remove the second terminal from the first terminal.

Claim (Index 3):
A drive apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein if a direction parallel to an axis of rotation of the motor is defined as an axial direction, a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the motor is defined as a radial direction, and a direction around the axis of rotation of the motor is defined as a circumferential direction, the first terminal and the second terminal are joined together or removed from each other in the axial direction, wherein the cover or the heat sink has a fitting portion which engages a catching portion of the housing to position the second terminal relative to the first terminal in the radial and circumferential directions, and wherein a distance by which the fitting portion engages the catching portion in the axial direction is set longer than a distance by which the first terminal is inserted into the second terminal in the axial direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97183
- Patent Class: 310.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11434222', '12296657', '11487447', '13265050', '15542797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8620371847312744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4640927152201385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8222427377801609
- Mean Citation Score: 131.19105199999998
- Max Citation Score: 145.02191000000005
- Similarity Product: 104.42670533910992

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