PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972998
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["296", "020000"]

Abstract:
Roll-in cots having wheel alignment mechanisms. According to one embodiment, a roll-in cot includes a support frame, a pair of legs pivotably and slidably coupled to the support frame, and a pair of hinge members that are pivotably coupled to the support frame and to one of the legs. The roll-in cot also includes a wheel linkage pivotably coupled to the pair of legs and a wheel alignment mechanism. The legs and the hinge members pivot relative to one another in a relative angular rotation ratio and the wheel alignment mechanism rotates the wheel alignment mechanism relative to the hinge members at a reduction ratio. The relative angular rotation ratio of the legs and the hinge members is approximately inverse to the reduction ratio of the wheel alignment mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A roll-in cot comprising:\n a support frame; a first pair of legs pivotably coupled to the support frame; a first pair of hinge members, each hinge member pivotably coupled to the support frame and to one of the first pair of legs; a first wheel linkage pivotably coupled to the first pair of legs; and a wheel alignment mechanism incorporated into at least one of the first pair of legs, the wheel alignment mechanism comprising a first hub that is coupled to one of the first pair of hinge members and a second hub that is coupled to the first wheel linkage, wherein: one of the first pair of legs or the first pair of hinge members are slidably coupled to the support frame; the first pair of legs and the first pair of hinge members pivot relative to one another in a relative angular rotation ratio; the wheel alignment mechanism rotates the first wheel linkage relative to the first pair of legs at a reduction ratio, wherein a diameter of the first hub is less than a diameter of the second hub and the diameters of the first hub and the second hub define the reduction ratio of the wheel alignment mechanism; and the relative angular rotation ratio of the first pair of legs and the first pair of hinge members is approximately inverse to the reduction ratio of the wheel alignment mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91489
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14770126', '14245107', '13520627', '15335865', '14955816']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8016682857719607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5807294672791464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7795744039226793
- Mean Citation Score: 371.57008200000007
- Max Citation Score: 519.2897
- Similarity Product: 508.6345399689257

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

Dataset: test