PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16443918
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["440", "006000"]

Abstract:
A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an engine, an electric motor located farther forward than a propeller, a propeller shaft, a first transmission that defines a first transmission path extending from the engine to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the engine to the propeller shaft along the first transmission path, and a second transmission that defines a second transmission path, different from the first transmission path, extending from the electric motor to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the electric motor to the propeller shaft along the second transmission path.

Claim (Index 13):
The vessel propulsion apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the first transmission includes a first drive gear that rotates according to a rotation of the engine, a first driven gear that is driven and rotated by the first drive gear, and a first dog clutch that rotates together with the propeller shaft about the rotation axis and moves between a connection position to rotate together with the first driven gear and a disconnection position separated from the first driven gear; the vessel propulsion apparatus further comprises a shift actuator that moves the first dog clutch between the connection position and the disconnection position and a controller configured or programmed to cause the shift actuator to move the first dog clutch between the connection position and the disconnection position when a difference between a rotation speed of the first driven gear and a rotation speed of the first dog clutch is greater than a lower limit and equal to or lower than an upper limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91176
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16164852', '15376713', '13670613', '14576595', '14576590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6416965852546986
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5676966499928705
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6342965917285158
- Mean Citation Score: 367.64679
- Max Citation Score: 453.56253
- Similarity Product: 428.4654380882585

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