PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["188", "381000"]

Abstract:
A damper includes a housing with at least one axially offset longitudinally extending guide channel for receiving a plunger of a piston assembly. The plunger is axially offset from a control rod extending through the housing and the piston assembly. A coil spring surrounds the housing and extends between a hemispherical cap of the housing and the piston. The plunger includes a friction pad which engages the guide channel of the housing to provide frictional inter-engagement for the damper. In one embodiment, the housing includes a pair of axially offset guide channels and the piston assembly includes a pair of axially offset plungers which extend within a pair of guides of the housing. One of the plungers includes a linear sensor which provides signal information for use by a washer control circuit.

Claim (Index 22):
A damper for a washing machine, said damper comprising:\n a molded polymeric housing having a longitudinal axis and an end cap with a central aperture for guidably receiving a control rod for said damper, said housing including a pair of spaced-apart guide channels offset from said longitudinal axis of said housing, wherein said guide channels are defined by pairs of spaced-apart walls extending in parallel relationship to said longitudinal axis of said housing; a molded polymeric piston assembly including a piston at one end and a generally flat rectangular plunger extending therefrom and shaped to slideably fit within one of said guide channels of said housing; a friction pad mounted to said plunger to frictionally engage said one guide channel of said housing; a control rod extending through said aperture in said end cap of said housing and attached to said piston; and a coil spring surrounding said housing and captively held between said end cap of said housing and said piston.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17188
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12107307', '15048931', '10449722', '15804475', '13792154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8316677037476434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4600482648035135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7945057598532305
- Mean Citation Score: 206.394444
- Max Citation Score: 216.7358
- Similarity Product: 156.89621264270545

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