PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915720
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["277", "349000"]

Abstract:
A sealing apparatus includes a sealing apparatus body that is to be attached to an outer ring of a hub bearing, and a slinger that is to be attached to a hub, in which the sealing apparatus body includes a reinforcing ring and an elastic body part. The elastic body part includes an outer periphery side labyrinth lip that is positioned on an outer periphery side of an outer periphery side end portion of the slinger and forms a gap between the hub and the outer periphery side labyrinth lip, an inner periphery side labyrinth lip, and a side lip. A distal end portion of the outer periphery side labyrinth lip is positioned on the outer side of the outer periphery side end portion of the slinger in a direction of an axis, and the outer periphery side labyrinth lip forms a groove portion in an annular shape centered about the axis and depressed toward the inner periphery side at the outer periphery side labyrinth lip on the outer periphery side.

Claim (Index 3):
The sealing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the elastic body part at a part between the outer periphery side labyrinth lip and the inner periphery side labyrinth lip faces the slinger with a gap so as to form a labyrinth seal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.5098
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15885999', '14361096', '14935037', '10203599', '14432757']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8344394418507548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5250389243891672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.803499390104596
- Mean Citation Score: 320.177268
- Max Citation Score: 355.04236000000014
- Similarity Product: 287.1373673369289

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