PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["188", "336000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a brake apparatus comprising: a single monolithic brake shoe having a circular shape, wherein the shoe has a spacing defined therein at a predetermined location thereof; an actuator disposed in the spacing, wherein the actuator includes a hollow cylinder an a piston slidably contained in the cylinder, wherein when the actuator is activated, the spacing increases; and a brake lining lined on an outer face of the brake shoe, wherein when the spacing increases, the lining selectively contacts a brake drum, wherein the piston is step-shaped such that a braking force of the brake apparatus having the single monolithic brake shoe is substantially equal to a braking force of a brake apparatus having two individual brake shoes.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the actuation-force reducing groove has convex and concave portions, or corrugations or is step-shaped or has a rounded shape, wherein a shape of the groove depends on a performance of the brake apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09524
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15321225', '11164496', '12084277', '15503235', '14360814']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8499943603244956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4674193561983016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8117368599118763
- Mean Citation Score: 225.463474
- Max Citation Score: 244.4764
- Similarity Product: 183.98422810041905

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

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