PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["440", "057000"]

Abstract:
An outdrive for a marine vessel, such as a watercraft having an inboard engine, is provided. The outdrive can include a standoff box joined with a drive unit having a driveshaft that rotates in response to rotation of an input shaft coupled to an engine within a hull of the watercraft. The drive unit includes a propeller shaft that rotates in response to rotation of the driveshaft, and an associated propeller. The drive unit is vertically movable from a raised mode to a lowered mode, in which the propeller shaft is a preselected distance from a bottom of the boat hull, thereby lowering a thrust point produced by the propeller, all while the watercraft is moving through water and while the propeller is producing thrust. A related method and standoff box are also provided.

Claim (Index 11):
A standoff box for a watercraft having an inboard engine, the standoff box comprising:\n a first housing defining an interior, the first housing including a transom facing wall, a first bottom wall and a first rearward wall, the transom facing wall defining an input shaft hole adapted to receive therethrough an input shaft extending from an inboard motor, the bottom wall defining a bottom wall hole; a second housing including a second forward wall, an upper wall, and a second rearward wall, the upper wall defining an upper wall hole; a transfer shaft rotatably mounted in the first housing, extending through the bottom wall hole, and extending into the second housing through the upper wall hole, the transfer shaft disposed transverse to the input shaft when the input shaft is received by the input shaft hole, the transfer shaft configured to rotate in response to rotation of the input shaft, the transfer shaft including a transfer shaft longitudinal axis; and wherein the second housing is movably disposed below the first housing such that the upper wall of the second housing moves away from the bottom wall of the first housing to a distal position when the second housing is lowered, and such that the upper wall moves toward the bottom wall of the first housing to a proximal position when the second housing is raised.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01389
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15622757', '15622796', '15411511', '15464592', '11225782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6623726573060065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6435384981912667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6604892413945325
- Mean Citation Score: 506.0204999999999
- Max Citation Score: 638.2886
- Similarity Product: 598.8874078109741

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

Dataset: test