PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112701
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["244", "099500"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for damping an actuator includes an inerter. The inerter includes a first terminal and a second terminal movable relative to one another and configured to be mutually exclusively coupled to a support structure and a movable device actuated by an actuator. The inerter further includes a threaded shaft coupled to and movable along the inerter axis with one of the first terminal and the second terminal. The inerter additionally includes a flywheel rotatable in proportion to movement of the threaded shaft in response to axial acceleration of the first terminal relative to the second terminal during actuation of the movable device by the actuator. The inerter reduces actuator-load-oscillatory amplitude at resonance of the actuator and movable device relative to the actuator-load-oscillatory amplitude that would otherwise occur using the same actuator without an inerter.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of damping an actuator, comprising:\n actuating a movable device using an actuator; axially accelerating, using an inerter coupled to the movable device, a first terminal relative to a second terminal of the inerter during actuation of the movable device; rotationally accelerating a flywheel of the inerter in proportion to and simultaneous with the axial acceleration of the first terminal relative to the second terminal; and reducing, in response to rotationally accelerating the flywheel, an actuator-load-oscillatory amplitude of the movable device and of the actuator relative to the actuator-load-oscillatory amplitude that would otherwise occur using the actuator without the inerter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29508
- Patent Class: 244.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15159706', '15867940', '15867988', '15952898', '15343952']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8718000214015321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6222154540649184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8468415646678707
- Mean Citation Score: 399.78873
- Max Citation Score: 594.2728
- Similarity Product: 563.4966520270824

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

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