PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897878
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["074", "570300"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for balancer shaft assemblies featuring bearing caps. In one example, a system may include a bearing cap connected to a housing surrounding a balancer shaft. The bearing cap may have faces which contact components of the balancer shaft. This contact may prevent movement of the balancer shaft in a particular direction.

Claim (Index 6):
The balancer shaft assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second thrust control faces comprises a groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.525
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10934369', '14564716', '11985919', '11141895', '13673507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7837904318087016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4563023948653419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7510416281143656
- Mean Citation Score: 172.40116
- Max Citation Score: 184.1631
- Similarity Product: 130.48654280015228

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