PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["074", "560000"]

Abstract:
A protective cover for a steering shaft of a motor vehicle running through a footwell of the motor vehicle comprises a protective shell covering the steering shaft towards the footwell and being open at a back side facing away from the footwell, and securing elements for supporting the protective shell at a main body of a pedal unit located in front of the footwell in a rotatably fixed way. In circumferential direction around the steering shaft, the protective cover at its two back ends is configured for abutting against the main body or another motor vehicle part delimiting the footwell towards the front of the motor vehicle.

Claim (Index 10):
A pedal assembly for a motor vehicle including a footwell and a steering shaft through the footwell, the footwell being delimited towards the front of the motor vehicle by a motor vehicle part, the pedal assembly comprising\n a pedal unit including a main body configured to be arranged in front of the footwell of the motor vehicle, a swivel bearing for swivel mounting a pedal with regard to the main body, the pedal being configured to be arranged in the footwell, and a protective cover comprising a protective shell and securing elements configured for supporting the protective shell at the main body of the pedal unit in a rotatably fixed way, wherein a passage for the steering shaft of the motor vehicle extends between the main body and the protective shell of the protective cover, the passage being shielded from the footwell in circumferential direction around the steering shaft in some areas by the protective shell and in other areas by the main body, and wherein the protective shell, at its two back ends, is configured for abutting in circumferential direction around the steering shaft against the main body or another motor vehicle part being the motor vehicle part delimiting the footwell towards the front of the motor vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15613617', '14610866', '13783216', '15695095', '13175408']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7981824719205453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4478403370875908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7631482584372498
- Mean Citation Score: 184.433694
- Max Citation Score: 220.7262
- Similarity Product: 173.77276211314202

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