PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917026
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["299", "029000"]

Abstract:
A housing mount assembly for a TBM disc cutter assembly having a shaft and cutter wheel assembly includes a housing half with a body and opposite edge portions extending away from the body. A removable seat block is fixed to the housing half in a space between the edge portions, and is configured to transmit forces received from the cutter shaft to the housing half in shear. A first face of the seat block is pressed against a face of one of the edge portions, and second face is pressed against the housing half body. The seat block may be preloaded against the housing half with first and second pluralities of bolts arranged perpendicularly. The seat block is configured to be removable in the field without removing the housing half from the TBM. The seat block may be hardened to a Rockwell C hardness in the range of Rc 58 to 60.

Claim (Index 19):
The housing mount assembly of  claim 16 , further comprising a preload bolt that extends through a longitudinal aperture in the removable seat block and threadably engages the first end portion of the shaft, wherein the preload bolt is configured to press the end portion of the shaft against the removable seat block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42424
- Patent Class: 299.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15335788', '15336530', '13925647', '12475334', '15337764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6596837053319666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5151487626339479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6452302110621648
- Mean Citation Score: 242.378134
- Max Citation Score: 319.32523
- Similarity Product: 251.8719030974257

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