PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903409
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["074", "422000"]

Abstract:
A rack guide is movably housed in a housing hole of a housing. A plug is screwed to an outer opening end portion of the housing hole. An urging member is interposed between the rack guide and the plug. External threads on the outer peripheral surface of the plug are screwed to internal threads at the outer opening end portion of the housing hole. The root portion of the external threads includes an interference portion that interferes with a crest portion of the internal threads.

Claim (Index 1):
A rack guide device comprising:\n a housing in which a housing hole is formed; a rack guide housed in the housing hole so as to be movable in a first direction toward a rack shaft and a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the rack guide supporting the rack shaft so as to be slidable in an axial direction; a plug screwed to an outer opening end portion that is an end portion of the housing hole on a side in the second direction; and an urging member interposed between the plug and the rack guide to urge the rack guide in the first direction, wherein: an outer peripheral surface of the plug includes external threads screwed to internal threads formed in an inner peripheral surface of the housing hole at the outer opening end portion; and a root portion of the external threads includes an interference portion that interferes with a crest portion of the internal threads.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04545
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13827428', '15361175', '14973172', '13903244', '12617087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.792597366923446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4172727425728231
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7550649044883837
- Mean Citation Score: 155.38804399999995
- Max Citation Score: 162.6771
- Similarity Product: 140.00435230153798

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