PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877913
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["267", "064270"]

Abstract:
A support ring used as part of an air spring assembly, where the support ring provides support for a top cap against radial forces applied by a clamping ring. The support ring is made of a plastic material which is less costly than a metal support ring. The plastic material is a high creep resistance plastic material, which provides increased strength and improved creep resistance, to withstand the compressive radial forces of the clamping ring. Once the support ring is formed, the top cap, which is also made of plastic, is overmolded such that a portion of the top cap is overmolded around the support ring. The high creep resistance plastic material is oriented during the injection molding process around the entire circumference of the support ring, to provide sufficient strength to withstand the radial forces from the clamping ring.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , further comprising the steps of providing the high creep resistance plastic material to have less than a 40% increase in strain over time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14516801', '15293328', '13635625', '15135892', '12897049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6746764582345769
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4949603662055862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6567048490316778
- Mean Citation Score: 141.919124
- Max Citation Score: 174.58495
- Similarity Product: 92.41387631397544

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

Dataset: test