PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["254", "344000"]

Abstract:
An improved self-engaging clutch having a carrier plate with one or more clutch actuator fingers formed into the carrier plate.

Claim (Index 1):
An improved self-engaging clutch for a planetary gear winch, said self-engaging clutch comprising:\n a planetary winch having a motor, a planetary gear drive, a clutch and a drum mounted on a frame, wherein the clutch is capable of engaging and disengaging the drum from the motor; the planetary gear drive having a first, a second and a third planetary gear set, each gear set having a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears each mounted to a planet carrier by a planet pin, the plurality of planet gears orbiting around and engaging with the sun gear, and a ring gear surrounding and engaging with the planet gears; a clutch having one or more cavities located on an exterior surface of the ring gear of the third gear set, a cavity located on the frame adjacent to the ring gear of the third gear set, a clutch actuator, a clutch actuator finger on the planet carrier of the second gear set and a pin moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein the clutch actuator finger is capable of moving the pin between the disengaged position and the engaged position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.16667
- Patent Class: 254.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14932657', '11542094', '10687923', '10321838', '15058030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7276526286879047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4536890240886547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7002562682279797
- Mean Citation Score: 219.562438
- Max Citation Score: 298.62747
- Similarity Product: 297.34794688478524

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