PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["277", "399000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to seal rings useful in rotating systems such as automobile transmissions, torque converters and automatic clutches. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a seal ring in which the first end includes a platform in a radially inward portion of each lateral region thereof, and a vertically-extending blade in a radially outward portion of its central region; and the second end of the seal ring has two vertically extending fingers in a radially outward portion of each lateral region thereof, and a platform in a radially inward portion of its central region. When the ends are engaged, a portion of the extension of the blade is disposed radially directly over the central platform, a portion of each finger is disposed radially directly over a lateral platform, and the blade of the central region of the first end is disposed between the fingers.

Claim (Index 20):
An apparatus comprising\n a rotating shaft; a seal ring according to  claim 1  disposed about the rotating shaft, with its first lateral face and/or its second lateral face disposed against a sidewall of a groove associated with the rotating shaft; and a housing or a bore disposed about the shaft and the seal ring, such that the outer circumferential face of the seal ring is disposed against an inner circumferential face of the housing or bore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15866193', '15277575', '11165367', '13665536', '14513351']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7922130008128898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4551798041354435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7585096811451453
- Mean Citation Score: 194.909496
- Max Citation Score: 215.89702000000003
- Similarity Product: 206.8478895448613

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

Dataset: test