PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["440", "075000"]

Abstract:
In an outboard motor, a feed passage, through which a lubricating oil that flows upward from a gear mechanism due to rotation of the gear mechanism, extends upward from a gear chamber and includes a first feed passage that extends from the gear chamber to a connection passage via a first upstream passage, a spiral passage, and an interior of an upper bearing, in that order. The feed passage further includes a second feed passage that extends from the gear chamber to the return passage while bypassing the spiral passage via a bypass passage. The bypass passage includes two ends spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the driveshaft and is disposed around the spiral passage.

Claim (Index 6):
The outboard motor according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the connection passage includes an upstream end connected to the feed passage and a downstream end connected to the return passage; and at least one of the upstream end and the downstream end of the connection passage is located above an oil surface of the lubricating oil when the prime mover is stopped.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15337243', '15299736', '11771842', '14026016', '13592629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5962102499421916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668595901021356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.593275183958186
- Mean Citation Score: 287.15221600000007
- Max Citation Score: 451.8616
- Similarity Product: 415.24827295742034

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

Dataset: test