PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["415", "170100"]

Abstract:
A seal assembly for sealing a fluid passageway from contaminants is disclosed. The fluid passageway is formed by a rotating shaft entering an opening in a housing. The fluid passageway connects an interior of the housing, and any exterior of the housing. The seal assembly includes a first sealing member and a second sealing member, which divides the fluid passage into an interior section, an open section, and a sealed section. The interior section is exposed to the interior of the housing. The sealed section is fluidly sealed between the interior section and the open section. A sensor is disposed within the sealed section. The sensor is configured to sense the contaminants within the sealed section and is electronically coupled to a controller configured to send an alarm signal. The sensor is a moisture sensor and extends into an annular recess formed in the stationary member.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for securing a seal assembly to a motor housing, the seal assembly sealing a rotating shaft entering the housing from contaminants, the method comprising:\n securing a stationary member to the housing so as to surround the rotating shaft; securing a rotatable member to an adjacent portion of the rotating shaft for rotation therewith; positioning the rotatable member adjacent the stationary member to form a fluid passage therebetween, the fluid passage connecting an interior of the housing and an exterior of the housing; providing a first sealing member having an inner diameter surrounding the rotating shaft and a second sealing member having an inner diameter surrounding the rotating shaft, the first and second sealing members positioned to sealingly divide the fluid passage into an interior section exposed to the interior of the housing, an open section exposed to an exterior of the housing, and a sealed section disposed between the interior section and the open section, wherein the first sealing member inner diameter has a length that is different from a length of the second sealing member inner diameter; and positioning a sensor in the sealed section to sense contaminants in the sealed section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56452
- Patent Class: 415.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14510585', '15130112', '12397775', '11405207', '12156476']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7605449102652202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506959928187323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7351864120574305
- Mean Citation Score: 253.983568
- Max Citation Score: 395.01654
- Similarity Product: 389.5831723968065

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

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