PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745866
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["188", "282200"]

Abstract:
A vibration damper for a motor vehicle may include a damper tube, a piston rod that moves in the damper tube, a working piston attached to the piston rod that divides the damper tube into two working spaces, and first and second damping valves each with an adjustable damping force. Damping liquid may pass through the first damping valve as the piston rod retracts and through the second damping valve as the piston rod extends. Each damping valve may include a valve body that can be moved by a separate, controllable drive device between a closed position and an open position to set a throughflow cross section of each respective damping valve. The valve bodies may be loaded by restoring means counter to an actuating force of the drive device. A first of the restoring means may load a first of the valve bodies into its open position, and a second of the restoring means may load a second of the valve bodies into its closed position.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of damping vibrations in a motor vehicle with a vibration damper that includes a damper tube that is filled at least partially with damping liquid, a piston rod that is retractable and extendable in the damper tube, a working piston that is attached to the piston rod and divides an interior space of the damper tube into a first working space and a second working space, and first and second damping valves that each have an adjustable damping force, wherein the damping liquid passes through the first damping valve when the piston rod retracts and the damping liquid passes through the second damping valve when the piston rod extends, wherein each of the first and second damping valves comprises a valve body that is movable between a closed position and an open position to set a throughflow cross section of the respective damping valve, the method comprising:\n setting a position of each valve body by way of a separate, controllable drive device; and loading each of the valve bodies by way of restoring means counter to an actuating force of the separate, controllable drive device, wherein a first of the restoring means loads a first of the valve bodies into the open position, wherein a second of the restoring means loads a second valve body into the closed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45833
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13383456', '10744551', '15523719', '12933656', '15576987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8467362879958591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723519122428012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8092978504205534
- Mean Citation Score: 271.622224
- Max Citation Score: 291.45935
- Similarity Product: 257.0833288178801

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

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