PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886890
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["074", "493000"]

Abstract:
A collapsible steering column assembly comprising a steering shaft that is supported within a steering column shroud, the shroud comprising an upper shroud portion and a lower shroud portion, in which the upper shroud portion is located towards the end of the steering shaft that is nearest the steering wheel and the lower portion is located towards the end of the shaft furthest from the steering wheel, the upper portion being at least partially received within the lower portion so that the upper portion can telescopically collapse into the lower portion during a crash, a support bracket that in use is secured to a fixed part of the vehicle and includes two support bracket arms that depend from a base portion to embrace the shroud, a clamp rail that is releasably secured to the upper shroud portion, the clamp rail including a slot that extends generally horizontally, and a clamp pin that extends through an opening in each of the arms of the bracket and through the generally horizontal slot in the rail, the clamp pin carrying a clamp mechanism that is movable between an unclamped position in which the rail can move freely relative to the clamp pin and a clamped position in which the rail is fixed relative to the clamp pin. The rail is secured to the upper shroud portion by a deformable tab which protrudes from the upper shroud portion to hook onto a part of the rail that faces the steering wheel end of the shroud. In use of the assembly with the cam mechanism in the clamped condition the tab is deformable under a predefined load applied to the upper shroud so as to unhook from the rail allowing the upper shroud to move axially relative to the rail and hence relative to the clam pin to permit collapse of the steering column shroud.

Claim (Index 2):
The collapsible steering column assembly according to  claim 1  in which the stack of components includes a toothed rake block carried by the clamp pin, the toothed block carrying a first rack of teeth that in both the clamped and secondary clamped position engage corresponding rack teeth that are fixed relative to the support bracket thereby to prevent movement of the steering column shroud for rake, the toothed block being held apart from the teeth secured to the support bracket when in the unclamped position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1165
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15233272', '15886888', '15315932', '14759533', '16087149']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.841798505959583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5423499485360388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8118536502172286
- Mean Citation Score: 403.124404
- Max Citation Score: 467.45218
- Similarity Product: 398.5574085936189

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

Dataset: test