PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072847
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["606", "056000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an external fixator for reduction of a fractured or deformed bone, which includes a first frame through which the bone passes, a second frame through which the bone passes, the second frame being spaced apart from the first frame, and a variable leg connected to the second frame by a ball joint and having a first leg and a second leg at which a thread is formed respectively. The ball joint includes a ball connected to the first leg through a ball axle and having a perforation hole passing through a center thereof, a ball housing located at the second frame and having a fitting groove into which the ball is fit and a pair of insert holes formed at an outer surface thereof along a direction traversing the fitting groove to face each other, and a pin member provided on the insert hole to pass through the perforation hole. As the ball housing rotates, the first leg rotates to fasten or release screw coupling between the first leg and the second leg and thus change a length of the variable leg.

Claim (Index 27):
An external fixing system comprising:\n an external fixator having:\n a first frame having a configuration through which a bone passes, \n a second frame having a configuration through which the bone passes, the second frame being spaced apart from the first frame, and \n a variable leg connected to the second frame by a ball joint, the variable leg having a first leg and a second leg, each of the first leg and the second leg having a thread thereon, \n wherein the ball joint includes a ball connected to the first leg through a ball axle, the ball having a perforation hole passing through a center thereof, a ball housing located at the second frame, the ball housing having a fitting groove into which the ball is accommodated and a pair of insert holes defined at an outer surface of the ball housing along a direction traversing the fitting groove to face each other, and a pin provided to extend over the pair of the insert holes to pass through the perforation hole, and \n wherein as the ball housing rotates, the first leg rotates to fasten or release screw coupling between the first leg and the second leg and to change a length of the variable leg; \n a detachable actuator configured to give a power to rotate the ball housing and having a motor and a power transmission rotated by the motor; and a planning server configured to select the motor to be operated and control a rotation force and a rotation direction of the motor, wherein a protrusion of the power transmission is inserted into a lower space of the ball housing and the ball housing rotates by a rotation force of the actuator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4557
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12302438', '15463999', '15107598', '14871613', '14717652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7154220811351356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4547900468032993
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.689358877701952
- Mean Citation Score: 176.99539799999997
- Max Citation Score: 184.21913
- Similarity Product: 148.2943915698457

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

Dataset: test