PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16503950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["296", "180400"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method of securing a strut portion to an I-beam of a vehicle, the securing mechanism comprising a pair of opposed clamps, each including a gripping portion, a securing portion, an abutting portion and a fastener adapted to apply tension on the clamps toward each other for moving the clamps toward each other and compress the strut portion to the I-beam.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for securing a skirt-securing member to an I-beam of a vehicle's floor with a securing mechanism, the securing mechanism comprising:\n a pair of symmetrical clamps adapted to be latched together about a symmetry axis therebetween to engage and secure the skirt-securing member to the I-beam, each of the pair of clamps comprising a gripping portion comprising\n an inclined portion including an end proximal to the central axis and an end distal to the central axis; \n a first contacting portion connected, at a first end thereof, to the distal end of the inclined portion, the first contacting portion being disposed at an angle with the inclined portion and substantially parallel with the symmetry axis; and \n a second contacting portion connected, at a distal end thereof, to a second end of the first contacting portion and generally orthogonally disposed in respect with the first contacting portion and the symmetry axis, \n each of the pair of clamps further comprising a securing portion connected to the gripping portion, the securing mechanism further comprising\n a fastener for securing the pair of clamps toward each other, \n the method comprising\n disposing the skirt-securing member within the pair of opposed gripping portions, adjacent to the first contacting portions and the second contacting portions; \n disposing a lower portion of the I-beam within the pair of opposed gripping portions, adjacent the inclined portion, adjacent the first contacting portion and superposed to the skirt-securing member; \n moving the pair of clamps toward each other, wherein moving the pair of clamps toward each other is sliding the inclined portions on the lower portion of the I-beam, moving the second contacting portion and the skirt-securing member along the symmetry axis toward the lower portion of the I-beam; and \n compressing the second contacting portion and the skirt-securing member against the lower portion of the I-beam to secure the skirt-securing member to the I-beam of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91667
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471696', '15257571', '12647004', '12360038', '13078982']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8427759194548998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5645855371057085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8149568812199807
- Mean Citation Score: 280.643186
- Max Citation Score: 370.92648
- Similarity Product: 317.5579724386597

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