PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["105", "250000"]

Abstract:
A covered hopper railcar includes a roof portion and a plurality of side portions coupled to the roof portion. The plurality of side portions and the roof portion at least partially define a longitudinal centerline axis and a transverse centerline axis that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline axis. The covered hopper railcar also includes a bottom assembly coupled to the side portions. The bottom assembly includes a plurality of bottom side sheets and a trough assembly coupled to the plurality of bottom side sheets. The trough assembly is substantially parallel to and substantially aligned with the longitudinal centerline axis.

Claim (Index 37):
The method in accordance with  claim 36 , further comprising:\n coupling an underframe assembly to the support member comprising:\n providing a stub sill subassembly comprising opposing C-channel beams spaced apart by a gap; \n coupling a striker assembly to the ends of the C-channel beams across the gap; \n coupling front and rear center plate framing components between the C-channel beams; \n coupling front and rear draft lug weldments to the respective front and rear center plate framing components; and \n coupling a lower bolster assembly to the opposing C-channel beams; and \n coupling a shear plate to the stub sill subassembly, the end floor, and the plurality of side sills, wherein the shear plate is configured to transfer a portion of its loads to the bottom assembly and thereby decrease loads in said plurality of side sills.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78947
- Patent Class: 105.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14596657', '15040562', '14505668', '10926381', '11079662']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7517724728731614
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5987995666902284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7364751822548681
- Mean Citation Score: 323.139556
- Max Citation Score: 607.3182400000002
- Similarity Product: 484.3200879411508

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