PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["475", "183000"]

Abstract:
A wobble gear system is provided with an arrangement of gear elements that permits a motive input to drive planet gear elements to increase the gear reduction ratio while maximizing efficiency of the wobble gear system. The wobble gear system may have eccentrically rotating or oscillating wobble elements including a wobble plate and compound planet gear elements that are non-collinear and may be driven by the motive input, increasing the realized gear ratio in a single stage without reducing efficiency. One wobble gear system embodiment may employ a plurality of ring-supported and driven compound planet gear elements with laterally offset non-collinear central axes to optimize eccentricity and enhance gear reduction ratios. The wobble gear system may be integrated with components of a vehicle drive wheel driven by an in-wheel motor to produce speeds and torques required to drive vehicles including automobiles and aircraft.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for transferring torque through a wobble gear system to produce an optimal gear ratio while maximizing gear system efficiency, comprising:\n a. providing a plurality of gear elements comprising at least a plurality of spaced rings, a plurality of planet elements spaced circumferentially about and in contact with said plurality of spaced rings, and a central wobble element in contact with at least one of said plurality of spaced rings, wherein said plurality of gear elements are positioned to rotate about a central axis, wherein said plurality of spaced rings rotates concentrically or eccentrically relative to said central wobble element, and said plurality of planet elements are stepped gear elements with one stepped section radially offset from a second stepped section so that the stepped sections are non-collinear; b. providing an input comprising a source of motive power in contact with at least one of said plurality of planet elements; c. applying the input to the at least on of the plurality of planet elements and causing the planet elements, the plurality of spaced ring elements, and the central wobble element to rotate, producing eccentric rotation of at least said at least one of said plurality of spaced rings and said central wobble element; d. reducing a gear ratio for the wobble gear system while transferring torque through the plurality of gear elements during the eccentric rotation to an output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92208
- Patent Class: 475.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15222320', '15404550', '10534841', '11051063', '15009296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6994694220217318
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4907273126700963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6785952110865683
- Mean Citation Score: 210.985294
- Max Citation Score: 232.17128
- Similarity Product: 165.47392578962325

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

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