PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16147917
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["475", "230000"]

Abstract:
An axle assembly that includes a housing assembly, an input pinion, a ring gear, a ring gear bearing, and a differential assembly having a differential case. The ring gear bearing supports the ring gear for rotation on the housing assembly as well as handles thrust loads between the ring gear and the housing assembly in opposite axial directions. The ring gear bearing includes an outer bearing race having a first race member, which may be unitarily and integrally formed with the ring gear, and a second race member that is received in a groove formed on the ring gear. The differential case is coupled to the ring gear and secures the second race member to the ring gear.

Claim (Index 19):
An axle assembly comprising:\n a housing assembly; an input pinion mounted to the housing assembly for rotation about a first axis; a ring gear received in the housing and meshingly engaged with the input pinion; a ring gear bearing that supports the ring gear for rotation relative to the housing assembly about a second axis, the ring gear bearing having a first bearing race, a second bearing race and a plurality of first bearing elements, the first bearing race comprising a first race member and a second race member, the second race member being received into a circumferentially extending groove formed in the ring gear, the second bearing race of the ring gear bearing being abutted against a shoulder formed on the housing assembly that is positioned along the second axis at a location that is between the first axis and the first bearing elements, the first bearing elements being engaged to the second bearing race and the first and second race members of the first bearing race; and a differential assembly having a differential case and a pair of output members, the differential case being fixedly coupled to the ring gear such that the second race member of the first bearing race is disposed along the second axis between the differential case and the ring gear; wherein power transmission between the input pinion and the ring gear that drives the ring gear about the second axis in a first rotary direction generates a first thrust load that is directed along the second axis in a first direction, wherein power transmission between the input pinion and the ring gear that drives the ring gear about the second axis in a second rotary direction opposite the first rotary direction generates a second thrust load that is directed along the second axis in a second direction that is opposite the first direction, and wherein each of the first and second thrust loads is transmitted through the first bearing elements when the first and second thrust loads are transmitted between the ring gear and the housing assembly; wherein the differential case secures the second race member to the ring gear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41509
- Patent Class: 475.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15427348', '15151831', '14629614', '14205535', '14244117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7162051481151297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098960485549275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6955742381591095
- Mean Citation Score: 295.209532
- Max Citation Score: 328.56113
- Similarity Product: 307.7335170270956

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