PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942355
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["123", "090210"]

Abstract:
A valve drive for an internal combustion engine may include a camshaft, at least one cam follower, and at least one adjusting device. The camshaft may include at least one cam group including a first cam and a second cam. The at least one adjusting device may include a first adjustable engagement element configured to contact a first guide and a second adjustable engagement element configured to contact a second guide of a slotted guide The at least one adjusting device may further include a stop arrangement axially shiftable relative to a rocker lever shaft. The stop arrangement may include a first stop region and a second stop region. At least one of the first engagement element and the second engagement element may be adjustable via the first stop region and the second stop region, respectively, when the stop arrangement is shifted along the rocker lever shaft.

Claim (Index 1):
A valve drive for an internal combustion engine, comprising:\n a camshaft, at least one cam follower, and at least one adjusting device; the camshaft including at least one cam group non-rotatably fixed on the camshaft, the at least one cam group including a first cam and a second cam disposed axially adjacent to the first cam; the at least one cam follower being drive-connected to the first cam when in first position and drive-connected to the second cam when in a second position; the at least one adjusting device including a first adjustable engagement element and a second adjustable engagement element, the first engagement element and the second engagement element arranged on the at least one cam follower spaced apart from one another; the first engagement element interacting with a first guide arranged on the camshaft and the second engagement element interacting with a second guide of a slotted guide arranged on the camshaft; wherein the first engagement element and the second engagement element are alternately adjustable between a basic position and a switching position; wherein the first engagement element does not contact the first guide when in a basic position and the first engagement element interacts with the first guide when in a switching position; wherein the second engagement element does not contact the second guide when in a basic position and the second engagement element interacts with the second guide when in a switching position; and wherein the at least one adjusting device further includes a stop arrangement axially shiftable relative to a rocker lever shaft, the stop arrangement including a first stop region corresponding to the first engagement element and a second stop region corresponding to the second engagement element, and wherein at least one of the first engagement element and the second engagement element is adjustable from the basic position into the switching position via the first stop region and the second stop region, respectively, when the stop arrangement is shifted along the rocker lever shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15936061', '15936383', '15627050', '14651275', '14460371']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7137921409553772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5171891347632984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6941318403361694
- Mean Citation Score: 275.79385
- Max Citation Score: 348.13702
- Similarity Product: 338.1705977903844

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

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