PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912168
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["604", "506000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments provide automatic injection devices in which a shroud is automatically deployed to protectively sheath a needle after an injection is performed. Exemplary embodiments also provide shroud deployment assemblies including a shroud and a syringe carrier that, when cooperatively configured in an automatic injection device, ensure that the shroud is automatically and completely deployed after an injection is performed using the automatic injection device. Exemplary embodiments are also configured to ensure that, once the shroud is deployed to an extended position to sheath the needle, accidental forces applied to the shroud do not succeed in subsequently retracting the shroud to a retracted position in which the needle would become exposed.

Claim (Index 1):
A syringe carrier assembly for use in an automatic injection device, the syringe carrier assembly comprising:\n a proximal tubular portion having a first outer diameter; a distal tubular portion having a second outer diameter less than the first diameter; and a chamfer formed between the proximal and distal tubular portions to create a relief extending between the proximal tubular portion and the distal tubular portion; wherein the syringe carrier assembly is disposed partly within a tubular member of a shroud; wherein, as the shroud moves from a retracted position to an extended position, distal arms of the shroud move forwardly within a constrained space formed between an inner portion of the housing of the automatic injection device and an external portion of the proximal tubular portion of the syringe carrier; and wherein the proximal tubular portion and/or a chamfered edge of the syringe carrier assembly are cooperatively coupled to exhibit a gradual downward force slope substantially along a distance from a retracted position to a deployed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14007849', '12968744', '13580271', '13580146', '14541095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7699577360461953
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6138399723721774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7543459596787936
- Mean Citation Score: 346.412048
- Max Citation Score: 578.2760599999998
- Similarity Product: 509.12658390433415

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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