PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111654
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["285", "093000"]

Abstract:
An expansion joint comprising a hollow elastomeric body having coupling flanges at each open end configured to connect to flanges of a pipe system. The hollow elastomeric body is comprised of a material comprising an elastomer and fibers. A stretchable sensor is located within the material of the hollow elastomeric body. The sensor is configured to provide a varying electrical characteristic when the sensor is stretched, contracts and deteriorates or wears. An analysis circuit is connected to the sensor, the analysis circuit configured to receive the varying electrical characteristic and to emit a signal corresponding to a level of the electrical characteristic received by the analysis circuit.

Claim (Index 8):
The expansion joint of  claim 1 , wherein the signal comprises at least one of an audible and a visible signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14551868', '15113438', '10614329', '12524312', '10795053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7790929946590904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.3999355970605632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7411772548992377
- Mean Citation Score: 147.995684
- Max Citation Score: 275.6439
- Similarity Product: 213.70417622339127

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