PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960543
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["267", "064270"]

Abstract:
An end member is dimensioned to engage an end of a flexible spring member to at least partially form a gas spring assembly. The end member includes an end member wall that has a longitudinal axis. The end member includes a securement wall portion having an outer surface with a surface profile dimensioned to abuttingly engage the end of the flexible spring member. The surface profile includes a plurality of concave profile sections and a plurality of convex profile sections that are dimensioned to generate a progressively increasing compression force along at least a section of the securement wall portion. A gas spring assembly including such an end member is included. A suspension system including one or more gas spring assemblies and a method of assembly are also included.

Claim (Index 1):
An end member dimensioned to engage an associated flexible spring member of an associated gas spring assembly, said end member including:\n an end member wall having a longitudinal axis and including an end wall portion and a securement wall portion; said end wall portion extending transverse to said axis and including an outer surface dimensioned to abuttingly engage an associated structural component; and, said securement wall portion extending longitudinally from along said end wall portion and including an outer peripheral extent with first, second and third grooves extending radially inward into said securement wall portion from along said outer peripheral extent, said first, second and third grooves disposed in axially-spaced relation to one another such that a plurality of ridges are formed along said securement wall portion with one of said plurality of ridges positioned between adjacent ones of said first, second and third grooves such that said plurality of ridges are disposed in axially-spaced relation to one another, each of said first, second and third grooves having a groove depth with said groove depths progressively decreasing in an axial direction such that said first, second and third grooves are capable of generating a variable-compression wedge effect during abutting engagement with the associated flexible spring member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14892852', '15559263', '15476239', '14424207', '15033474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7400696348198211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5091977199600081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7169824433338399
- Mean Citation Score: 243.407436
- Max Citation Score: 336.32742
- Similarity Product: 290.25163780148154

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

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