PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["188", "073310"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for a vehicle is provided that includes and axle and an articulating brake component mounting plate carried by the axle. The articulating brake component mounting plate has an inner portion and an outer portion, and the position of the outer portion is adjustable with respect to the inner portion. Either the inner portion or the outer portion defines an adjustment nut aperture. An adjustment nut is located in the adjustment nut aperture.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:\n an axle; an articulating brake component mounting plate carried by the axle, wherein the articulating brake component mounting plate has an inner portion and an outer portion, wherein the position of the outer portion is adjustable with respect to the inner portion, wherein the inner portion defines an adjustment nut aperture and the adjustment nut aperture is not located at the outer portion, wherein the articulating brake component mounting plate has an adjustment nut located in the adjustment nut aperture, wherein the adjustment nut is tightened in order to lock the position of the outer portion relative to the inner portion, and wherein the adjustment nut is loosened in order to allow adjustment of the position of the outer portion relative to the inner portion; a spindle, wherein the inner portion has a spindle aperture that receives the spindle, wherein the spindle aperture has a spindle aperture axis, wherein the articulating brake component mounting plate has an engagement pin that has an engagement pin axis, wherein the adjustment nut engages the engagement pin, wherein the spindle aperture axis is perpendicular to the engagement pin axis, and wherein the outer portion rotates about the engagement pin axis; brake shoes that have a brake shoe frictional pad; a brake drum that has a brake drum inner surface; wherein the outer portion carries the brake shoes and wherein the axle has an axis, wherein the inner portion has a spindle aperture axis that is coaxial with the axis of the axle, wherein the outer portion is oriented with respect to the inner portion such that the brake shoe frictional pad directly faces the brake drum inner surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92683
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15547673', '15521712', '15547147', '16307178', '15537908']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8514584682994045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501367617048495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8164493831743136
- Mean Citation Score: 307.259922
- Max Citation Score: 362.92618
- Similarity Product: 251.8877521842205

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

Dataset: test