PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16084636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["135", "038000"]

Abstract:
An upper hub is fixed to a guide tube, which is telescopically disposed in and reciprocally movable relative to a uppermost end portion of the support tube. The guide tube and a slider, sleeve or runner are interconnected by flexible traction means in the form of a flexible traction member. One end of the flexible traction member is firmly secured to the slider, the other is firmly secured to a counterweight component. When closing the umbrella, the slider is moved downwards the support tube. By this, the slider pulls the flexible traction member, so that the counterweight component is lifted upwards. When the upper end of the counterweight component comes in touch with the lower end of the guide tube, the guide tube is pushed upwards by the counterweight component. By this, the upper hub is lifted. This simultaneously causes a lift of the ribs, pivotally connected to the upper hub. In a second embodiment, there is added a free pulley system in order to save some force. This pulley system consists of an additional push rod, which is disposed telescopically in the support tube and the guide tube, and which is operated by the means of an additional traction member. When closing the umbrella, the counterweight component actuates the push rod, which pushes the guide tube upwards.

Claim (Index 1):
A shade structure like an umbrella with ribs ( 9 a ), which are at one end pivotally connected to an upper hub ( 1 ), and struts ( 9 b ) supporting the ribs ( 9 a ), at one end pivotally connected to the ribs ( 9 a ) and at their other end to a slider ( 3 ), movable up- and downwards a support tube ( 5 ), with an upper hub ( 1 ) fixed to the upper end of a guide tube ( 4 ), telescopically disposed in and reciprocally movable relative to a uppermost end portion ( 8 ) of the support tube ( 5 ), characterized in that at least one flexible traction member ( 6 ) pulls a counterweight component ( 7 ), situated and movable within the support tube ( 5 ) and moving upwards when the slider ( 3 ) is being moved downwards the support tube ( 5 ), whereby the upper end of the counterweight component ( 7 ) comes in touch with the lower end of the guide tube ( 4 ), pushing the guide tube ( 4 ) upwards and thereby lifting the upper hub ( 1 ) and the ribs ( 9 a ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76136
- Patent Class: 135.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15559004', '10602719', '13024930', '13093633', '11106618']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7008343600810634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4960849280334466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6803594168763017
- Mean Citation Score: 200.729752
- Max Citation Score: 204.26993
- Similarity Product: 125.37277199189484

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test