PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16250593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["074", "594200"]

Abstract:
A bearing preload adjuster for a bicycle crank set and bottom bracket comprises an adjustment ring for coupling with a bicycle crank arm, a movable plunger comprising an external thread for rotatably coupling with the adjustment ring. The adjustment ring is rotated in order to cause the plunger to extend along an axis of the bottom bracket and apply pressure to a bottom bracket bearing inner race. The adjustment ring is rotated until the clearance in the bearing assemblies and the play in the bottom bracket assembly has been eliminated. This allows the crank assembly to rotate freely, while preventing the crank assembly from sliding side to side inside the bearing bores and along the axis of the crank spindle.

Claim (Index 15):
The crank set of  claim 9  wherein the bearing preload adjuster further comprises a gasket adapted to prevent water and dirt from contacting the one or more bearings of the bottom bracket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14099641', '13087019', '10722040', '13743098', '14139236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8194565596773058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385086079376327
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7913617645033385
- Mean Citation Score: 257.0333
- Max Citation Score: 416.2977
- Similarity Product: 266.30352769553656

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

Dataset: test