PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16263126
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["123", "19600R"]

Abstract:
An engine block with an oil path switching arrangement is proposed. The engine block includes an oil sump, an oil pump, a clean oil riser and a switching valve. The switching valve has in each case connections for the oil sump, the oil pump and the clean oil riser. The switching valve is switchable to open and close the connections, including a first position in which a connection between the clean oil riser and the oil sump is established, thereby avoiding discharge of oil in the clean oil riser through an oil filter receptacle during an oil change.

Claim (Index 1):
An engine block, comprising:\n an oil pan; an oil pump; a clean oil riser; and a switching valve, wherein\n the switching valve includes an oil pan port, an oil pump port, and a clean oil riser, and \n the switching valve has a first position in which a connection is established between the clean oil riser port and the oil pan port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18367
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13750040', '11227608', '10796338', '14516952', '13351357']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7138338791414183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4581726623550118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6882677574627777
- Mean Citation Score: 143.692328
- Max Citation Score: 146.63326999999995
- Similarity Product: 105.94496240725036

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

Dataset: test