PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["188", "274000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for cooling damping fluid in a vehicle suspension damper unit. A damping unit includes a piston mounted in a fluid cylinder. A bypass fluid circuit having an integrated cooling assembly disposed therein is fluidly coupled to the fluid cylinder at axial locations that, at least at one point in the piston stroke, are located on opposite sides of the piston. The cooling assembly may include a cylinder having cooling fins thermally coupled to an exterior surface of the cylinder and made of a thermally conductive material. The bypass channel may include a check valve that permits fluid flow in only one direction through the bypass channel. The check valve may be remotely operated, either manually or automatically by an electronic controller. A vehicle suspension system may implement one or more damper units throughout the vehicle, controlled separately or collectively, automatically or manually.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle suspension damper comprising:\n a cylinder containing a piston assembly comprising a piston and piston rod; a working fluid within the cylinder; a cooling chamber, said cooling chamber comprising:\n a cooling housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, wherein the working fluid enters the cooling housing inlet port, traverses a distance within the cooling housing, and exits the cooling housing outlet port; and \n a bypass assembly in fluid communication with the cylinder and the cooling chamber, wherein the bypass assembly receives the working fluid directly from within the cylinder from a first side of the piston and provides the working fluid directly to the cooling housing inlet port of the cooling chamber, and receives the working fluid directly from the cooling housing outlet port of the cooling chamber and returns the working fluid directly back to within the cylinder via a second side of the piston.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90476
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14293805', '13411086', '14154857', '13891469', '14506420']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8753061857553851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4516777058483677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8329433377646834
- Mean Citation Score: 205.02115
- Max Citation Score: 233.69368
- Similarity Product: 218.94282172837256

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test