PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["188", "19600F"]

Abstract:
A vehicle brake slack adjuster includes a housing coupled to a brake actuator and supporting a driving worm wheel engaging the brake cam shaft and a driving worm screw meshed with the driving worm wheel and transferring a brake actuating force, imparted by the brake actuator to the housing, to the driving worm wheel and cam shaft. The adjuster further includes a wear adjustment mechanism including a reference arm fixed against movement and including a control ring gear, a pinion gear meshed with the control ring gear and configured for rotation about an axis, a clutch ring disposed about the axis and configured for rotation with the pinion gear, a control worm screw disposed about the axis, a wrap spring engaging surfaces of the clutch ring and control worm screw and a control worm wheel meshed with the control worm screw and configured for rotation with the driving worm screw.

Claim (Index 15):
The automatic slack adjuster of  claim 9  wherein the surfaces of the clutch ring and control worm screw comprise radially outer surfaces of the clutch ring and control worm screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77193
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12181016', '15834200', '11990872', '10867847', '11547911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8549172574769345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072114275921841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8201466744884593
- Mean Citation Score: 342.04529599999995
- Max Citation Score: 348.40262
- Similarity Product: 221.36628112397432

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

Dataset: test