PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889422
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["188", "071700"]

Abstract:
A disc brake, a wear adjuster for a disc brake and a method for operating a disc brake are provided. The wear adjuster includes a pawl biased by a spring against, and actuated by, a rotary lever, a shaft with the ratchet wheel arranged to be rotated by the pawl when the rotary lever rotates in a brake release direction, and a tappet wheel threaded on a brake application tappet supported on a movable bridge in the disc brake caliper. During brake release the pawl rotates the ratchet wheel and the shaft. The shaft and the tappet wheel have gearing which rotates the tappet wheel with the shaft. Due to the threaded engagement of the tappet wheel and the non-rotating tappet, the rotating tappet wheel causes the tappet to advance relative to the bridge to compensate for brake pad wear.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein\n the ratchet wheel aperture has a width parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft wider than a width of the ratchet wheel along the shaft longitudinal axis, and during the act of rotating the rotary lever in a brake application direction, the ratchet wheel is biased by the shaft in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis against a ratchet wheel contact surface of the aperture configured to inhibit rotation of the ratchet wheel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51667
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11074822', '15115429', '11744256', '15397350', '11744263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8664582808088087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893696714891447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8287494198768424
- Mean Citation Score: 297.936036
- Max Citation Score: 312.4878
- Similarity Product: 222.4937946954846

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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