PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["180", "008100"]

Abstract:
An adaptable wheel has a central hub, radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment having a linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment; a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and a locking mechanism for selectively preventing linear motion of the linear actuator. A control system for an adaptable wheel includes a distance sensor on a vehicle for determining distance to a surface in the path of the vehicle and a computer for receiving distance information from the distance sensor and, responsive to the distance information, determine a desired length of a segment of an adaptable wheel for maintaining a hub of a wheel level, and provide control signals to a linear actuator of the segment.

Claim (Index 1):
An adaptable wheel comprising:\n a central hub; and a plurality of radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment comprising:\n a linear actuator having a fixed portion and a spoke movable with respect to the fixed portion, the linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment in response to a first control signal; \n a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and \n a locking mechanism configured to selectively generate a friction force between opposing surfaces of the spoke and the locking mechanism sufficient to prevent linear motion of the spoke relative to the fixed portion of the linear actuator in response to a second control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214109', '13573080', '14545914', '15469542', '13969290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7491436472628411
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498680368175935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7240973193541504
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85081
- Max Citation Score: 299.12848
- Similarity Product: 278.577689084549

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