PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["446", "444000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle configured to move through a network of interconnected tubes includes a body, a motor, a motorized wheel, a biasing assembly, and a first element. The motorized wheel directly engages an inner surface of the tubes. The biasing assembly causes the motorized wheel to maintain continuous contact with the inner surface of the tubes during operation. A waist of the vehicle is constrained by an inner diameter (D) of the curved tube, a radius of curvature (R) of the curved tube, and a length (L) of the wheelbase of the vehicle. The waist of the body is sized such that the vehicle can freely move within any of the tubes without getting stuck therein.

Claim (Index 18):
A vehicle configured to propel through a network of interconnected tubes including a curved tube having a maximum inner height, the vehicle comprising:\n an elongated body; a motor coupled to a battery configured to power the motor; a motorized wheel partially protruding or extending away from the body, operatively coupled to the motor, and configured to directly engage an inner surface of the network of interconnected tubes; a biasing assembly configured to cause the motorized wheel to contact with the inner surface of the network of interconnected tubes during operation of the motor; and a plurality of bearing surfaces on or integral with the body, wherein the motorized wheel, the biasing assembly, and at least one of the bearing surfaces form respective contact points on an inside surface of the at least one curved tube, and wherein the plurality of bearing surfaces are configured for side-to-side movement of the vehicle at a distance between about 10% and 32% of the maximum inner height of the at least one curved tube to produce wobbling or stochastic movements of the vehicle as the vehicle is propelled through the network of interconnected tubes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15723580', '13325781', '14385841', '12655569', '10691850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6183596730130243
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5053376014243381
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6070574658541558
- Mean Citation Score: 152.66380600000005
- Max Citation Score: 188.00278
- Similarity Product: 131.568897739861

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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