PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["188", "322130"]

Abstract:
An air bleed system for a suspension fork or shock absorber includes: a fluid passage between an interior of the suspension and an exterior of the suspension; and a manually operable valve having a first position substantially closing the fluid passage and a second position allowing fluid flow between the interior and the exterior.

Claim (Index 1):
An air bleed assembly comprising:\n a lower fork, said lower fork configured to have a first end coupled to a vehicle wheel, and a second end configured to be telescopically engaged with a first end of an upper fork;\n a fluid passage disposed between an interior of said lower fork and an exterior of said lower fork; and \n a manually operable valve located in said lower fork and coupled to said fluid passage, said manually operable valve disposed in said lower fork proximate a lower fork seal, said lower for seal configured to provide a seal at a location where said lower fork telescopically engages with said upper fork, said manually operable valve having a first position substantially closing said fluid passage and a second position allowing a fluid to flow between said interior and said exterior, and wherein said fluid passage and said manually operable valve are located at a distance from an oil bath lubrication within said lower fork, such that when said manually operable valve is in said second position, most of said oil bath lubrication remains within said lower fork and such that when trapped air pressure inside said lower fork, that is higher than a local ambient air pressure outside of said suspension fork, is relieved, most of said oil bath lubrication that is within said lower fork remains within said lower fork.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62857
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15679471', '14822859', '13890753', '14931259', '14502679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974162815425007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4127624446131827
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7589508978495689
- Mean Citation Score: 155.052804
- Max Citation Score: 170.275
- Similarity Product: 169.2682621508837

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

Dataset: test