PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["175", "073000"]

Abstract:
A slip ring apparatus including a ring assembly having a conductive ring with a conductive ring engagement surface, a contact assembly having a contact element with a contact element engagement surface for engaging with the conductive ring engagement surface, and a surface discontinuity provided in at least one of the conductive ring engagement surface and the contact element engagement surface. An apparatus including the slip ring apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a housing having an interior and a shaft rotatably extending through the interior of the housing. A method for reducing the potential of a hydroplaning effect in a slip ring apparatus, including providing a surface discontinuity in at least one of a conductive ring engagement surface and a contact element engagement surface.

Claim (Index 8):
The slip ring apparatus as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the ring assembly is comprised of a plurality of conductive rings, wherein each of the conductive rings is comprised of the conductive ring engagement surface, wherein the contact assembly is comprised of a plurality of contact elements for engaging with the plurality of conductive rings, wherein each of the contact elements is an elongated flat metal strip, wherein each of the contact elements is comprised of the contact element engagement surface for engaging with one of the conductive ring engagement surfaces, and wherein the surface discontinuity is provided in at least each of the contact element engagement surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02326
- Patent Class: 175.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177700', '14079158', '15125792', '14078880', '10953759']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.700544160607211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839822174516562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6788879662916556
- Mean Citation Score: 242.471242
- Max Citation Score: 298.18448
- Similarity Product: 274.3721156108093

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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