PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210580
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["384", "480000"]

Abstract:
A sealing apparatus main body includes a reinforcing ring and an elastic material portion which is attached to the reinforcing ring and formed of an elastic material. The elastic material portion has a side lip formed so as to contact a slinger from the inside, a radial lip formed so as to contact the slinger from an outer periphery side, and an outer peripheral annular projection being an annular projection which is arranged on an outer periphery side of the side lip and protrudes to the outside. The slinger has a fitting portion and a flange portion extending from an outer end portion of the fitting portion to the outer periphery side. The elastic material portion forms a labyrinth seal between the outer peripheral annular projection and the side lip between the elastic material portion and the flange portion of the slinger.

Claim (Index 5):
The sealing apparatus according to  claim 4 , characterized in that an inner labyrinth seal face being a portion of the elastic material portion that faces the outer labyrinth seal face in the direction of the axis has at least one annular step portion forming a step in the direction of the axis, and a portion on an outer periphery side of the inner labyrinth seal face is positioned on one side in the direction of the axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84615
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15915720', '15885999', '15907617', '16171792', '14361096']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8308309036422611
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5294147597268443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8006892892507194
- Mean Citation Score: 322.817534
- Max Citation Score: 365.56122
- Similarity Product: 262.4729758317017

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

Dataset: test