PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["440", "075000"]

Abstract:
In an outboard motor, a feed passage, through which a lubricating oil that flows upward from a gear mechanism due to rotation of the gear mechanism, extends upward from a gear chamber and includes a first feed passage that extends from the gear chamber to a connection passage via a first upstream passage, a spiral passage, and an interior of an upper bearing, in that order. The feed passage further includes a second feed passage that extends from the gear chamber to the return passage while bypassing the spiral passage via a bypass passage. The bypass passage includes two ends spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the driveshaft and is disposed around the spiral passage.

Claim (Index 10):
The outboard motor according to  claim 1 , wherein the second feed passage further includes at least one outer peripheral passage that bypasses the interior of the upper bearing, and the second feed passage extends from the gear chamber to the return passage via the connection passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15337243', '15299736', '11771842', '14026016', '13592629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5976609580574584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5637903306862305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5942738953203356
- Mean Citation Score: 287.15221600000007
- Max Citation Score: 451.8616
- Similarity Product: 392.53210353159903

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