PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["296", "219000"]

Abstract:
A soft panel top assembly for a vehicle in sealing engagement with a hard top portion of a roof. The soft panel top assembly has a fixed portion attached to the vehicle and a lightweight pivotal portion that folds back to provide a quick and easy open air effect. Two door rails of the soft panel top assembly are connected to the vehicle. Two side rail linkage assemblies are attached to the header, which is secured to a windshield frame when in a closed position, and are connected at pivot points created with a bracket attached to the door rails to allow the pivotal portion to pivot to an open position. The soft panel top assembly includes a rear header that is lightweight and has a sealing arrangement that engages with the hard top roof portion and existing seal of the hard top roof portion to provide a weatherproof seal.

Claim (Index 7):
The soft panel top assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the rear header assembly further comprises:\n at least one upper rear header; at least one retainer operably connected to the cover and to the upper rear header; at least one rear header seal having an attachment portion and a sealing portion, said sealing portion being a bulbous; at least one binding retainer operably connected to the at least one retainer and to the attachment portion of the at least one rear header seal such that the at least one retainer and the attachment portion are sandwiched together operable to retain the at least one rear seal; wherein the at least one binding retainer, attachment portion and binding retainer are sewn together, bonded, and/or adhered together; and wherein said sealing portion is located substantially between the binding retainer and the hard top roof portion and in contact with the at least one hard top seal to provide the weather tight seal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30882
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15276386', '14831414', '15286154', '15783637', '15725884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8762796098551007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5648103766918621
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8451326865387768
- Mean Citation Score: 465.419658
- Max Citation Score: 501.92435
- Similarity Product: 485.06811221337614

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

Dataset: test