PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055564
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["224", "326000"]

Abstract:
A crossbar clamp actuator of a crossbar-to-vehicle coupler may include a horizontally traveling wedge block having a ramped, downward-facing first slide surface, and a wedge follower having a second slide surface in frictional contact with the first slide surface of the traveling wedge block. Substantially horizontal repositioning of the traveling wedge block may cause the ramped first slide surface to urge the wedge follower downward, thereby actuating a crossbar clamp.

Claim (Index 21):
A rack for carrying cargo on top of a vehicle, the rack comprising:\n a crossbar and a pair of couplers configured to mount the crossbar on top of a vehicle such that a long axis of the crossbar is substantially horizontal and perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle; wherein each coupler includes:\n a crossbar clamp having a crossbar seat and a crossbar connector movable relative to the crossbar seat; and \n a crossbar clamp actuator configured to convert horizontal actuation into vertical clamping of the crossbar connector to the crossbar seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92308
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15167774', '15177053', '15176116', '15172043', '15176107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8769099170808932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289454208789961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8421134674607035
- Mean Citation Score: 311.5438660000001
- Max Citation Score: 391.92352
- Similarity Product: 372.1769213118744

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