PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041003
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["277", "500000"]

Abstract:
A sealing apparatus includes an annular lip member made of a resin material, and an annular spring member made of a metal material. The lip member includes a lip base portion, an outer-periphery-side lip, and an inner-periphery-side lip. The spring member includes: a spring base portion having an annular shape about an axis; an outer periphery pressing portion for pressing the outer-periphery-side lip; and an inner periphery pressing portion for pressing the inner-periphery-side lip. The spring member is accommodated in an accommodating groove. The outer periphery pressing portion includes a plurality of outer periphery pressing pieces, and the inner periphery pressing portion includes a plurality of inner periphery pressing pieces. The outer periphery pressing piece has a cutout extending along the axis without reaching a high-pressure-side edge of the outer periphery pressing piece, and the inner periphery pressing piece has a cutout extending along the axis without reaching a high-pressure-side edge of the inner periphery pressing piece.

Claim (Index 4):
The sealing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the spring base portion of the spring member has a shape which is curved so as to project toward the other side in a cross section along the axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.35294
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15915720', '15995308', '15708448', '15608074', '15492383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8292063480294424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991270175465024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7961984149811484
- Mean Citation Score: 233.32752
- Max Citation Score: 243.65656
- Similarity Product: 162.523049024148

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