PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["296", "107090"]

Abstract:
A retractable canopy for a vehicle, the retractable canopy moving independently of a vehicle roll bar being retracted or raised. Canopies for weather protection both from excessive exposure to the sun and from precipitation are commonly used on many types of vehicles, which in many cases may be motorized. For safety reasons, and often also legal requirements, these vehicles may be equipped with a roll bar or similar structure to protect the operator of the vehicle from injury in the event that the vehicle rolls over. When the vehicle encounters a low-lying obstruction, the canopy may be quickly lowered to enable the vehicle to travel underneath and past the obstruction, after which the canopy may be quickly raised again. Raising or lowering of the canopy is independent of whether the roll bar is raised or lowered, and raising or lowering of the roll bar is independent of the canopy position.

Claim (Index 23):
A retractable canopy for a vehicle having a roll bar, the roll bar movable between a deployed roll bar position in which the roll bar extends above a driver's head to protect a driver during a vehicle roll over and a retracted roll bar position in which the roll bar is lowered to avoid interference with obstacles, the retractable canopy comprising:\n a canopy operable to provide weather protection for a vehicle driver; a canopy support operable to support the canopy; and a canopy mounting bracket operable to mount the canopy to the roll bar, the canopy mounting bracket and canopy support operable to allow the canopy to move between a deployed canopy position, in which the canopy provides weather protection for the vehicle driver and a retracted canopy position in which the canopy is positioned lower than when the canopy is in the deployed canopy position; the canopy, canopy support, and canopy mounting bracket operable to allow the canopy to be moved between the deployed canopy position and the retracted canopy position when the roll bar is in either the deployed roll bar position or the retracted roll bar position; and wherein the canopy support is operable to move around the outside of the roll bar, or the canopy support is operable to move within the inside of the roll bar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.025
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13117702', '15420051', '10993038', '14109579', '12625431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8095191319144445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4651988271454707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750871014375471
- Mean Citation Score: 232.56305000000003
- Max Citation Score: 252.87067
- Similarity Product: 195.4681542008579

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