PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985873
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["285", "068000"]

Abstract:
A gladhand coupling that prevents inadvertent separation of the coupling halves without the need for additional structure or manipulation to connect and disconnect the halves. Each half is equipped with a lug having a ramped pad and a flange defining a channel having a corresponding ramped pad. When two halves are positioned together then rotated into the locked position, the ramped pad of the lug is positioned proximately to the ramped pad of the flange to prevent inadvertent lateral compression of the two halves that could cause unintentional uncoupling. The coupling may be disconnected by simple rotation of one coupling half relative to the other and by pulling the coupling apart as done by current rail car decoupling procedures without the need for manual manipulation of extraneous locking mechanisms.

Claim (Index 10):
The coupling of  claim 9 , wherein the first coupling half and second coupling half are oriented at 180 degrees to each other when in the unlocked position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15281924', '15003104', '13021705', '15416755', '15683455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8117305757700508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4426866890812884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7748261871011746
- Mean Citation Score: 270.01948200000004
- Max Citation Score: 407.59723
- Similarity Product: 345.77706382528544

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