PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["280", "093511"]

Abstract:
A ball stud ( 21 ) for a ball joint ( 20 ) having an annular body ( 22 ) pressed onto the ball stud ( 21 ). The annular body ( 22 ) is held fast to the ball stud ( 21 ) by at least one circumferential securing element to prevent loosening, that acts between the ball stud ( 21 ) and the annular body ( 22 ) and is in the form of a deformation edge ( 23 ). The at least one deformation edge ( 23 ) is formed integrally with the ball stud ( 14 ). A ball joint ( 20 ) that has a housing ( 36 ) in which a ball stud ( 21 ) is held.

Claim (Index 31):
A ball stud for a ball joint, the ball stud defining a longitudinal axis, an annular body being pressed along the longitudinal axis in a first axial direction to an axially fixed position on the ball stud, the ball stud having an integrally formed deformation edge that mates with the annular body for preventing movement of the annular body in a second axial direction along the longitudinal axis from the fixed position, the ball stud having a cylindrical outer surface and an abutment surface that projects radially outward from the cylindrical outer surface and mates with a contact surface of the annular body to stop movement of the annular body in the first direction and define the fixed position of the annular body on the ball stud, the annular body having a cylindrical inner surface that surrounds the cylindrical outer surface of the ball stud, the cylindrical inner surface of the annular body having a diametrical dimension that is smaller than a diametrical dimension of the deformation edge such that movement of the annular body in the first direction along, the cylindrical outer surface of the ball stud, deforms the deformation edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48077
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13381681', '11817059', '13353577', '15121201', '15551795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8244161221622501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828061190560407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7902551218516292
- Mean Citation Score: 169.28791
- Max Citation Score: 189.85121
- Similarity Product: 136.53397716405036

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