PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["180", "300000"]

Abstract:
A handling strut connects the powertrain of an automobile to a structural member, such as a panel in the engine bay. The handling strut is comprised of two strut members, one connected to the powertrain, the other connected to the structural member. A shaft attached to one strut member, extends through a bushing provided in the other strut member and an air gap is provided between the bushing and the shaft, such that when the engine is idle, or not accelerating, and in the absence of hard cornering, the strut members are decoupled. The isolation of the strut members when not required to control engine roll, reduces/avoids transmission of noise, vibration and/or harshness.

Claim (Index 25):
A shaft location tool for arranging a shaft in a predetermined position within an aperture in a bushing, so as to provide a predetermined air gap between the shaft and the inside edge of the aperture in the bushing; the shaft location tool comprising a shaft receiving portion and a aperture engagement portion; the aperture engagement portion shaped and sized to be inserted into the inside edge of the aperture in the bushing and the shaft receiving portion arranged to receive the shaft in a predetermined location; whereby, the shaft may be inserted into the shaft location tool in a predetermined location and the shaft location tool may be inserted into the aperture such that the aperture engagement portion abuts the inside edge of the aperture, such that a predetermined clearance is provided between the inside edge of the aperture in the bushing and the shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11667
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13635393', '13073177', '14812105', '14373757', '14684668']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7149614135636793
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925645193431217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6927217241416235
- Mean Citation Score: 165.215152
- Max Citation Score: 186.84523
- Similarity Product: 125.08883756346044

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