PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["446", "444000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle configured to move through a network of interconnected tubes includes a body, a motor, a motorized wheel, a biasing assembly, and a first element. The motorized wheel directly engages an inner surface of the tubes. The biasing assembly causes the motorized wheel to maintain continuous contact with the inner surface of the tubes during operation. A waist of the vehicle is constrained by an inner diameter (D) of the curved tube, a radius of curvature (R) of the curved tube, and a length (L) of the wheelbase of the vehicle. The waist of the body is sized such that the vehicle can freely move within any of the tubes without getting stuck therein.

Claim (Index 10):
A vehicle configured to propel through a network of interconnected tubes including at least one curved tube having a maximum inner height, the vehicle comprising:\n an elongated body; a motor coupled to a battery configured to power the motor; a motorized wheel positioned at a first end of the vehicle and mechanically coupled to the motor, the motorized wheel at least partially extending from the body such that the motorized wheel is configured to directly engage an inner surface of the network of interconnected tubes; a biasing assembly configured to cause the motorized wheel to maintain contact with the inner surface of the network of interconnected tubes; and a plurality of bearing surfaces provided by and/or integral with the body, wherein the motorized wheel, the biasing assembly, and at least one of the bearing surfaces form respective contact surfaces on an inside surface of the curved tube, and wherein the plurality of bearing surfaces are configured to permit the vehicle to move side-to-side within the at least one curved tube to permit wobbling or stochastic movements of the vehicle as the vehicle is propelled through the network of interconnected tubes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15723580', '13325781', '14385841', '12655569', '10691850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6195701379719804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003213414968263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.607645258324465
- Mean Citation Score: 152.66380600000005
- Max Citation Score: 188.00278
- Similarity Product: 138.1696187140405

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

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