PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["174", "07200R"]

Abstract:
A protective member able to prevent a protector from being large-sized, and to prevent a crush of an end section of a corrugated tube, a tube mounting structure using such a protective member, and a method of mounting a tube are provided. An inner member (protective member) includes: a tubular section fitted into an end section of a corrugated tube, and harder than this corrugated tube; and an outer peripheral rib formed so as to extend in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery of the tubular section, and inserted into an inner peripheral annular concave at the end section of the corrugated tube.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for mounting a tube by fitting an end section of a corrugated tube, into which a wiring harness is inserted, into a tubular protector,\n wherein at least one row of an inner peripheral rib extending in an inner circumference direction is formed on an inner periphery of the protector, said method comprising: a first step of inserting the wiring harness into an inside of a protective member having a tubular section harder than the corrugated tube and an outer peripheral rib formed so as to extend in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery of the tubular section; a second step of inserting the wiring harness into an inside of the corrugated tube and fitting the protective member into the end section such that the outer peripheral rib is inserted into an inner peripheral annular concave section at the end section of the corrugated tube; and a third step of mounting the end section of the corrugated tube on the protector such that the inner peripheral rib is inserted into an outer peripheral annular concave section at the end section, wherein the tubular section of the protective member includes: a plurality of tube portions arranged in the circumferential direction; and a hinge section joining end edges adjacent to each other of the plurality of tube portions other than both ends of the arranged end edges, the tubular section is openable and closable such that both end edges are moved close to and away from each other, the outer peripheral rib is a collectivity of rib portions as a part of a ring extending in the circumferential direction, and wherein the first step is the step of inserting the wiring harness into an inside of the protective member such that after the wiring harness is arranged inside of the protective member while the protective member is open and both end edges are away from each other, the protective member is closed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98276
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12116376', '12195011', '12524458', '15058190', '11267288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8442058054980955
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905309114869252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8088383160969785
- Mean Citation Score: 239.157302
- Max Citation Score: 260.20917000000003
- Similarity Product: 211.5897195291388

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