PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["297", "36700R"]

Abstract:
A locking device for a vehicle seat. The recliner includes a plate holder including a first catch protrusion on one of a plurality of guide blocks, a sector gear including an internal gear on an inner surface thereof, a plurality of pawl teeth each configured to be moved between a pair of the guide blocks, the pawl teeth including catch hooks on portions of inner surfaces thereof, an operation cam including a second catch protrusion protruding therefrom; and a return spring having a spiral shape, the return spring including a center inner end portion hooked and supported on the second catch protrusion and an outer end portion hooked and supported on the first catch protrusion, wherein a support protrusion protrudes from the operation cam to support the return spring while making point contact with a center inner surface of the return spring.

Claim (Index 2):
The recliner of  claim 1 , wherein the inner end portion and the outer end portion of the return spring are provided at both sides of the shaft hole of the operation cam, and\n the support protrusion of the operation cam is provided between the inner end portion and the outer end portion of the return spring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12676
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10735034', '13575844', '15474362', '14374176', '14374024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7751550795172937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795670761766257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7455962791832269
- Mean Citation Score: 221.004494
- Max Citation Score: 230.22786
- Similarity Product: 168.11364416515232

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