PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041003
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["277", "500000"]

Abstract:
A sealing apparatus includes an annular lip member made of a resin material, and an annular spring member made of a metal material. The lip member includes a lip base portion, an outer-periphery-side lip, and an inner-periphery-side lip. The spring member includes: a spring base portion having an annular shape about an axis; an outer periphery pressing portion for pressing the outer-periphery-side lip; and an inner periphery pressing portion for pressing the inner-periphery-side lip. The spring member is accommodated in an accommodating groove. The outer periphery pressing portion includes a plurality of outer periphery pressing pieces, and the inner periphery pressing portion includes a plurality of inner periphery pressing pieces. The outer periphery pressing piece has a cutout extending along the axis without reaching a high-pressure-side edge of the outer periphery pressing piece, and the inner periphery pressing piece has a cutout extending along the axis without reaching a high-pressure-side edge of the inner periphery pressing piece.

Claim (Index 2):
The sealing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the outer periphery pressing pieces of the outer periphery pressing portion are arranged at equal angular intervals centered about the axis, and the inner periphery pressing pieces of the inner periphery pressing portion are arranged at equal angular intervals centered about the axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.35294
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15915720', '15995308', '15708448', '15608074', '15492383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8309287512718798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856195717647412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.796397833321166
- Mean Citation Score: 233.32752
- Max Citation Score: 243.65656
- Similarity Product: 195.5628859727192

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

Dataset: test