PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["114", "312000"]

Abstract:
A submersible remotely operated vehicle with a streamlined shape, which uses an internal support lattice to provide pressure resistance. By using a lattice frame to distribute the water pressure load on the vehicle, the vehicle may be constructed of thin-walled, injection molded plastic, yet may be capable of diving to significant depths. The vehicle may provide pitch control using a single vertical thrust actuator that is horizontally fore or aft of the center of vertical drag; this efficient pitch control improves hydrodynamic efficiency by pointing the vehicle towards the direction of travel to minimize the coefficient of drag. The vehicle may communicate wirelessly with a remote operator via a communications buoy tethered to the vehicle, thereby eliminating cabling constraints on the vehicle's range from the operator. The tether may be connected to the buoy using a waterproof connector that presses three terminals surrounded by a compliant seal onto mating contacts.

Claim (Index 9):
The waterproof connector of  claim 8 , wherein said lattice further comprises\n a dense lattice of a selected density with a plurality of repeated polygons a cross-section of said lattice with some plane comprises at least 20 vertices, wherein said vertices comprise corners of the inner support columns or the inner support walls or both the inner support columns and the inner support walls that are inside an outer edge of the pressure hull, and said density is selected to provide a desired rigidity of the pressure hull.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65306
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621787', '15285255', '15621873', '13096721', '12090547']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7879414947585004
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5734475826711088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7664921035497612
- Mean Citation Score: 369.067746
- Max Citation Score: 494.43787
- Similarity Product: 345.9197466867673

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

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