PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["277", "500000"]

Abstract:
A circumferential seal for a machine having a rotating shaft is provided. The seal may comprise a metallic mounting element and a ceramic sealing runner. The mounting element may be affixed around the shaft and comprise a base and a mounting member. The mounting member may extend radially outward from the base and axially along the shaft to form a radially inward facing cylindrical surface. The sealing runner may have a radially outward facing surface and be carried by said mounting element in axial and radial alignment by an interference fit between at least a portion of the radially outward facing surface of the runner and at least a portion of the radially inward facing surface of the mounting member.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of sealing a machine having a shaft, comprising:\n placing a mounting element about said shaft, said mounting element having a radially inward facing surface; engaging said radially inward facing surface of said mounting element with a seal runner such that a radially outward facing surface of said seal runner forms an interference fit with said radially inward facing surface of said mounting element; engaging said radially outward facing surface of said seal runner with a seal; and axially compressing said mounting element between two components of said machine with an axial force to maintain an axial alignment of said mounting element, wherein no portion of said axial force is transmitted through said seal runner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23214
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425174', '15426281', '12987984', '11946930', '15277575']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8103166688879117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5495959230363273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7842445943027532
- Mean Citation Score: 309.3660500000001
- Max Citation Score: 433.14062
- Similarity Product: 346.25360635411147

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