PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["220", "562000"]

Abstract:
A fuel tank in a vehicle. The fuel tank includes a protective outer shell, an inner shell and a crush sleeve. The protective outer shell defines an outer tank. The inner shell defines an inner tank which holds fuel. The inner shell is housed in the outer shell and is isolated from the outer shell by a space. The crush sleeve is provided in the space between the outer shell and the inner shell. The crush sleeve supports the inner shell and maintains the inner shell in position relative to the outer shell. Wherein during an impact to the vehicle, the force of the impact causes the outer shell and the crush sleeve to deform and the inner shell to move relative to the outer shell.

Claim (Index 13):
A fuel tank in a vehicle, the fuel tank comprising:\n a deformable protective outer shell defining an outer tank; a deformable inner shell defining an inner tank which holds fuel, the deformable inner shell housed in the deformable outer shell, the deformable inner shell being isolated from the deformable outer shell; wherein the deformable inner shell is captured by the deformable outer shell and prevented from movement relative to the vehicle and the deformable outer shell prior to an impact to the vehicle; wherein the deformable outer shell manages the energy created by the impact, reducing the occurrence of a failure of the deformable inner shell; wherein during the impact to the vehicle, the deformable inner shell is configured to move i) in a direction which is horizontal or lateral to the direction of a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, ii) in a direction which is vertical or perpendicular to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, iii) in a direction which is in line with the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, iv) rotationally about a horizontal axis, v) rotationally about a first vertical axis, vi) rotationally about a second vertical axis, or vii) in a direction which is a combination of any or all of i), ii, iii), iv), v) and/or vi).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16279
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15592346', '14943404', '14520676', '14149957', '14887898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7946048049708456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5431964980502607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7694639742787872
- Mean Citation Score: 220.918088
- Max Citation Score: 399.77484
- Similarity Product: 347.13489104390857

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

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