PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["310", "06700R"]

Abstract:
A spindle motor is provided, the motor comprising: a base plate, a PCB on the base plate, a bearing assembly arranged on the base plate, a stator coupled to a periphery of the bearing assembly, a rotor rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly, the rotor including a yoke and a magnet, and a rotation shaft rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly. The base plate includes a planar portion and a protruding portion arranged along with a periphery of the yoke, the protruding portion being apart from the yoke. The base plate is partially covered with the PCB in a region where the stator is arranged. And, a height from the planar portion to an upper surface of the protruding portion is smaller than a height from the planar portion to a lower surface of the periphery of the yoke.

Claim (Index 19):
The spindle motor according to  claim 1 , wherein the PCB is provided with an exposure unit exposing a portion of the base plate opposite to the stator, and wherein the protruding portion of the base plate inhibits foreign objects from entering the spindle motor through the exposure unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 310.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14104856', '14598899', '14054333', '13299661', '12981189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8941293479733033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158195869471054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8562983718706835
- Mean Citation Score: 303.8162200000001
- Max Citation Score: 349.09686
- Similarity Product: 336.4668825726736

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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