PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742318
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["239", "585100"]

Abstract:
A valve for metering a fluid, the valve preferably being designed as a fuel injector for internal combustion engines. The valve includes an electromagnetic actuator and a valve needle that is actuatable by the actuator. The valve needle is used for actuating a valve closing body that cooperates with a valve seat surface to form a sealing seat. An armature of the actuator includes a through opening through which the valve needle extends. An annular gap is formed between an inner wall of a housing part and an outer side of the armature. A movable damping element that may have a partial ring shape is situated on the annular gap. The movable damping element is actuatable by a magnetic field that is generated by the actuator. The dynamics of the armature may thus be advantageously influenced in order to in particular reduce an armature bounce.

Claim (Index 17):
The valve as recited in  claim 11 , wherein in an unactuated starting position in which the magnetic field that is generatable by the actuator dissipates, the movable damping element reduces the annular gap to the greatest extent possible, and thereby one of: rests against the outer side of the armature, or is situated at a minimum distance from the outer side of the armature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15741835', '15219974', '15739277', '14429466', '10399369']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8372302981548784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790234229494588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8014096106343365
- Mean Citation Score: 207.00531
- Max Citation Score: 224.0037
- Similarity Product: 167.17562625144126

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

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