PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["303", "020000"]

Abstract:
A shock absorber has a valve controlling the flow rate of fluid between a first chamber and a second chamber. The shock absorber may include a blocker that has a variable profile. The blocker may be rotatable using an external adjuster to position the blocker to variably occlude an aperture and vary the damping of the suspension. A bias may also be positioned adjacent the blocker to allow force from the fluid to move the blocker and expose the aperture, thereby allowing fluid to flow through the entirety of the aperture.

Claim (Index 16):
A damped suspension for a bicycle, comprising:\n (a) a valve body at least partially defining a first chamber, a second chamber, and an aperture therebetween, the first chamber and the second chamber each being capable of containing at least a portion of a substantially incompressible fluid, and the aperture is configured to allow the substantially incompressible fluid to flow between the first chamber and the second chamber; and (b) a damping valve intermediate the first chamber and the second chamber, comprising:\n (1) a blocker rotatably disposed in the valve body and defining a relief at least partially around a periphery of the blocker; \n (2) an adjuster attached to the blocker and extending outside the valve body and capable of rotating the blocker to vary a rotational position of the relief and thereby to variably occlude the aperture; and \n (3) a bias configured to axially urge the blocker along an axis of rotation of the blocker to a position where the blocker exclusively blocks passage of the substantially incompressible fluid between the chambers, wherein pressure from the substantially incompressible fluid in the first chamber is capable of axially moving the blocker into an exposure position, wherein a magnitude of a force applied by the bias is substantially independent of the rotational position of the relief.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 116.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 303.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15084757', '15398286', '13774086', '11501996', '14676071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.752627109952486
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5494999491006882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7323143938673062
- Mean Citation Score: 254.984958
- Max Citation Score: 420.25638
- Similarity Product: 362.3391984536146

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

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