PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["188", "290000"]

Abstract:
A linear damper includes a damper housing, a rotor ( 20 ) positioned in the damper housing and a pinion ( 18 ) operably mounted to the rotor ( 20 ). A linear rack ( 14 ) has a base ( 32 ) and at least one upstanding side wall ( 30, 34 ), generally perpendicular to the base ( 32 ). The rack ( 14 ) has teeth ( 26 ) thereon for engagement with the pinion ( 18 ) as the pinion ( 18 ) moves along the rack ( 14 ) in a direction. The rack ( 14 ) has a plurality of elongated slots ( 40 ) formed therein in the direction of movement of the pinion ( 18 ) along the rack ( 14 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A linear damper comprising:\n a damper housing; a rotor positioned in the damper housing; a pinion operably mounted to the rotor; a linear rack, the linear rack having a base and at least one upstanding side wall, generally perpendicular to the base, the rack having teeth thereon for engagement with the pinion as the pinion moves along the rack in a direction, the rack having a plurality of elongated slots therein, the slots being elongated in the direction of movement of the pinion along the rack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49091
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13056694', '10902565', '12330207', '13675089', '14475959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8104878814927757
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4378822732688706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7732273206703852
- Mean Citation Score: 137.06293200000002
- Max Citation Score: 145.84111
- Similarity Product: 108.130189584226

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