PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["277", "500000"]

Abstract:
A circumferential seal for a machine having a rotating shaft is provided. The seal may comprise a metallic mounting element and a ceramic sealing runner. The mounting element may be affixed around the shaft and comprise a base and a mounting member. The mounting member may extend radially outward from the base and axially along the shaft to form a radially inward facing cylindrical surface. The sealing runner may have a radially outward facing surface and be carried by said mounting element in axial and radial alignment by an interference fit between at least a portion of the radially outward facing surface of the runner and at least a portion of the radially inward facing surface of the mounting member.

Claim (Index 4):
The seal assembly of  claim 1 , wherein said seal runner comprises a material having a lower CTE than a second material forming said mounting member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23214
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425174', '15426281', '12987984', '11946930', '15277575']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8302392596169155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5442353035459221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8016388640098162
- Mean Citation Score: 309.3660500000001
- Max Citation Score: 433.14062
- Similarity Product: 276.08461917003154

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