PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["285", "345000"]

Abstract:
A gasket retainer that is absent sharp corners, has apertures of reasonable dimensional tolerance, and may be conveniently made by a variety of manufacturing processes. The retainer is made from thin flat springy material that readily returns to form after slight bending. Representative gasket capturing apertures are of smoothly non-convex outline with major dimension sufficiently large to allow passage of a ring shaped gasket turned on edge and minor dimension sufficiently small to engage, on approximately opposite circular segments that each engage along less than one third of a gasket circumference, a cavity or groove on the outside diameter periphery of the gasket turned flat parallel to the retainer material sheet. Fasteners may be retained by similar apertures.

Claim (Index 7):
A gasket retainer for use in a fluid delivery system, comprising:\n a base member formed of a substantially flat sheet of material; and a gasket-capturing aperture having a non-convex periphery disposed in said base member; wherein the gasket-capturing aperture is generally rectangular in shape, the periphery being defined by four similar large radius portions and four small curved radii joining adjacent ends of each of the four similar large radius portions, and at least one pair of opposite large radius portions are sufficiently close to engage a cavity, groove, or thread on the outside diameter of said circular element, and the base member is flexed and then released during the installation of the circular element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51807
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14155333', '15641752', '10943124', '14688153', '10345216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7746151564059454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814677523716369
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7453004160025145
- Mean Citation Score: 252.622402
- Max Citation Score: 525.0891
- Similarity Product: 424.2089113099874

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

Dataset: test