PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["296", "219000"]

Abstract:
A soft panel top assembly for a vehicle in sealing engagement with a hard top portion of a roof. The soft panel top assembly has a fixed portion attached to the vehicle and a lightweight pivotal portion that folds back to provide a quick and easy open air effect. Two door rails of the soft panel top assembly are connected to the vehicle. Two side rail linkage assemblies are attached to the header, which is secured to a windshield frame when in a closed position, and are connected at pivot points created with a bracket attached to the door rails to allow the pivotal portion to pivot to an open position. The soft panel top assembly includes a rear header that is lightweight and has a sealing arrangement that engages with the hard top roof portion and existing seal of the hard top roof portion to provide a weatherproof seal.

Claim (Index 18):
A soft panel top assembly for a vehicle, comprising:\n two door rails attached to side members of the vehicle; two side rail linkage assemblies; two brackets, wherein a respective bracket is connected to a respective one of the two door rails for pivotally connecting a respective one of the two side rail linkage assemblies to each door rail; a header connected between the two side rail linkage assemblies and adapted to selectively connect to a windshield frame; a rear header assembly in sealing engagement with a hard top roof portion to provide a weather tight seal; a rear header seal operably connected on the rear header assembly to provide a weather tight seal between the rear header assembly, a substantially vertical surface on the hard top roof portion, and an existing hard top seal provided on the hard top portion, said rear header assembly operable to also compress another seal on the hard top portion to further provide a weather tight seal; a tertiary seal operably connected on the rear header assembly along the length of the rear header assembly to provide a back-up weather tight seal; and a cover that is a soft skin roof top cover, said cover operably connected to the header, rear header assembly and two side rail linkage assemblies, where pivoting the two side rail linkage assemblies allows the cover to move between a closed position and an open position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30882
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15276386', '14831414', '15286154', '15783637', '15725884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8626679296263459
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5632209209545044
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8327232287591617
- Mean Citation Score: 465.419658
- Max Citation Score: 501.92435
- Similarity Product: 488.4567535276324

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

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