PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["060", "282000"]

Abstract:
A heat shield for a reductant delivery unit (RDU), the RDU including a fluid injector with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a clamp flange for attachment to a mounting boss of a vehicle exhaust pipe. The heat shield includes a first portion which is attached to the fluid injector so as to at least partly cover the fluid outlet thereof. The first portion serves as a thermal barrier for the fluid injector and a mechanical barrier for preventing particles in the vehicle exhaust pipe from contacting the fluid injector when the RDU is attached to the vehicle exhaust pipe. The heat shield further includes a second portion which extends radially outwardly from the first portion for sealing the attachment between the clamp flange and the mounting boss of the vehicle exhaust pipe when the RDU is attached thereto.

Claim (Index 5):
The reductant delivery unit of  claim 3 , wherein at least one of the first portion and the second portion includes a plurality of notches defined therethrough, the notches being evenly distributed around the at least one of the first portion and the second portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36508
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12078252', '15788460', '13678581', '13212865', '13864301']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7632672662703888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048174478601545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7374222844293653
- Mean Citation Score: 265.547974
- Max Citation Score: 277.51282000000003
- Similarity Product: 168.1537153471482

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

Dataset: test