PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026468
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["384", "478000"]

Abstract:
A wheel bearing apparatus includes an outer ring, an inner shaft member, rolling elements, a cage, and a sealing device. The sealing device includes an annular slinger and a sealing member. The slinger has a first inclined surface provided on a radially outer side and on a side facing the sealing member such that a diameter of the first inclined surface increases toward a first side in an axial direction. The sealing member has a second inclined surface provided on the radially outer side and on a side facing the slinger such that a diameter of the second inclined surface increases toward a second side in the axial direction. The second inclined surface intersects with a virtual extension surface extending radially outwardly along the first inclined surface, and the second inclined surface is continuous with an inner peripheral surface of the radially outer portion.

Claim (Index 4):
The wheel bearing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the slinger includes\n an inner cylindrical portion attached to the inner shaft member at a position on the second side in the axial direction, \n an annular portion extending radially outwardly from the inner cylindrical portion, and \n an outer cylindrical portion extending toward the first side in the axial direction from a radially outer end of the annular portion; \n the first inclined surface is provided on an inner peripheral side portion of the outer cylindrical portion; and \n the gap is formed between the inner peripheral surface of the radially outer portion and an outer peripheral surface of the outer cylindrical portion such that the gap serves as a labyrinth gap that restrains entrance of foreign matter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85185
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14935037', '14432757', '12734720', '13177596', '11542560']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8294113122527483
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5137581900565777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7978460000331313
- Mean Citation Score: 301.54414
- Max Citation Score: 314.97552
- Similarity Product: 235.7789048939609

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