PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117229
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A rigidifiable flexible device includes a flexible member having flexibility, a plurality of movable members arranged in a line on a path between one end and the other end of the flexible member along a longitudinal direction of the flexible member, the movable members being movable on the path, a stopper provided at the one end of the flexible member and configured to prevent the movable members from being removed from the path beyond the one end of the flexible member, and a blocking member configured to prevent the movable members from being removed from the path beyond the other end of the flexible member. The length of a portion of the path between the blocking member and the stopper is adjustable so that the movable members are brought into close contact with each other on the path to form an integrated support body.

Claim (Index 8):
The device of  claim 6 , further comprising:\n a pawl located at a predetermined position on the second path and configured to prevent the position adjusting member from moving through the predetermined position toward the passage on the second path and to allow the position adjusting member to move through the predetermined position away from the passage on the second path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14763382', '14715123', '14804955', '11755182', '14325803']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.61935185066135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.509241699805005
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6083408355757156
- Mean Citation Score: 162.729794
- Max Citation Score: 179.90134
- Similarity Product: 92.73534647365452

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