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 10):
The seal assembly of  claim 9 , wherein a radial distance between the axis of the shaft and the radially inner surface formed by said base increases with an increasing axial distance between said radially inner surface formed by said base and 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): 0.8299647436669131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5451438976552024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.801482659065742
- Mean Citation Score: 309.3660500000001
- Max Citation Score: 433.14062
- Similarity Product: 284.42445022669085

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