PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["296", "107090"]

Abstract:
A retractable canopy for a vehicle, the retractable canopy moving independently of a vehicle roll bar being retracted or raised. Canopies for weather protection both from excessive exposure to the sun and from precipitation are commonly used on many types of vehicles, which in many cases may be motorized. For safety reasons, and often also legal requirements, these vehicles may be equipped with a roll bar or similar structure to protect the operator of the vehicle from injury in the event that the vehicle rolls over. When the vehicle encounters a low-lying obstruction, the canopy may be quickly lowered to enable the vehicle to travel underneath and past the obstruction, after which the canopy may be quickly raised again. Raising or lowering of the canopy is independent of whether the roll bar is raised or lowered, and raising or lowering of the roll bar is independent of the canopy position.

Claim (Index 6):
The retractable canopy assembly of  claim 4 , the vehicle further comprising:\n a roll bar assembly, including:\n a roll bar; \n a roll bar support; and \n a roll bar pivot bracket, the roll bar pivot bracket operable to enable pivoting motion between the roll bar and the roll bar support; and \n in which:\n the canopy mounting structure is attached to the roll bar support, the roll bar, or the roll bar pivot bracket; \n the roll bar is pivotable to a raised roll bar position at the roll bar pivot bracket in a third direction and the roll bar is pivotable to a lowered roll bar position at the roll bar pivot bracket in a fourth direction, the fourth direction being opposite from the third direction; \n the pivoting motion of the roll bar in the third and fourth directions is independent of the canopy position; and \n both the front canopy support and the rear canopy support are operable to pivot around the outside of the roll bar, or both the front canopy support and the rear canopy support are operable to pivot within the inside of the roll bar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.025
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13117702', '15420051', '10993038', '14109579', '12625431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8092033297640662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675322600296208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750362227906217
- Mean Citation Score: 232.56305000000003
- Max Citation Score: 252.87067
- Similarity Product: 189.0590044788325

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

Dataset: test