PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["180", "008100"]

Abstract:
An adaptable wheel has a central hub, radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment having a linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment; a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and a locking mechanism for selectively preventing linear motion of the linear actuator. A control system for an adaptable wheel includes a distance sensor on a vehicle for determining distance to a surface in the path of the vehicle and a computer for receiving distance information from the distance sensor and, responsive to the distance information, determine a desired length of a segment of an adaptable wheel for maintaining a hub of a wheel level, and provide control signals to a linear actuator of the segment.

Claim (Index 4):
The adaptable wheel of  claim 3 , wherein the locking mechanism includes a locking pin movable with respect to the fixed outer sleeve, wherein in response to the second control signal, the locking mechanism is configured to urge a free end of the locking pin into contact with an opposing exterior surface of the spoke in order to generate the friction force sufficient to prevent the movement of the spoke with respect to the fixed outer sleeve, and wherein the locking pin is only in contact with the spoke on a free end thereof opposing the exterior surface of the spoke.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214109', '13573080', '14545914', '15469542', '13969290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.769940641072111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5091963238366579
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438662093485657
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85081
- Max Citation Score: 299.12848
- Similarity Product: 235.09812261713031

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

Dataset: test