PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16443918
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["440", "006000"]

Abstract:
A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an engine, an electric motor located farther forward than a propeller, a propeller shaft, a first transmission that defines a first transmission path extending from the engine to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the engine to the propeller shaft along the first transmission path, and a second transmission that defines a second transmission path, different from the first transmission path, extending from the electric motor to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the electric motor to the propeller shaft along the second transmission path.

Claim (Index 5):
A vessel propulsion apparatus comprising:\n an engine; a motor located farther forward than a propeller; a propeller shaft that rotates together with the propeller about a rotation axis extending in a front-rear direction of the vessel propulsion apparatus; a first transmission that defines a first transmission path extending from the engine to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the engine to the propeller shaft along the first transmission path; and a second transmission that defines a second transmission path, different from the first transmission path, extending from the motor to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the motor to the propeller shaft along the second transmission path; wherein the first transmission includes a forward-reverse switch that switches a direction of rotation transmitted to the propeller shaft according to power transmitted from a shift actuator; and the motor is located farther rearward than the shift actuator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91176
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16164852', '15376713', '13670613', '14576595', '14576590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6138539307435787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5655989308348545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6090284307527063
- Mean Citation Score: 367.64679
- Max Citation Score: 453.56253
- Similarity Product: 429.6252693535924

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