PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965032
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["123", "090180"]

Abstract:
An adjustable camshaft for an internal combustion engine includes an outer shaft and a support shaft defining at least one bore with a relief groove configured outside of the bore. The support shaft extends along a longitudinal axis. The outer shaft may include a cam element disposed on the support shaft such that the outer shaft is displaceable along the support shaft along the longitudinal axis wherein the outer shaft is latchable on the support shaft in at least two axial latching positions. A biasing means, a press-fit retainer, and a latching element are disposed within the bore such that the biasing means urges the latching element toward any one recess of the plurality of recesses defined in the outer shaft.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for manufacturing an adjustable camshaft for an internal combustion engine, comprising the steps of:\n providing a support shaft having a bore and a relief groove defined outside of the bore; inserting a biasing means into a lower region of the bore; inserting a latching element into the bore such that the latching element is adjacent to an upper end the biasing means; press-fitting a press-fit retaining ring in an upper region of the bore so that the latching element is disposed in an aperture defined by the press-fit retaining ring; and positioning the outer shaft onto the support shaft so that the latching element may be disposed in one of a plurality of detent positions defined on the outer shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98438
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15035566', '14901158', '14396289', '15936061', '14130100']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7240928247582917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774569136460097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6994292336470636
- Mean Citation Score: 193.215276
- Max Citation Score: 251.00867
- Similarity Product: 209.22659527821065

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

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