PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["384", "544000"]

Abstract:
A wheel bearing apparatus has a seal ( 8 ) with a metal core ( 15 ) and a sealing member ( 6 ). The metal core ( 15 ) is fit into an outer-side end inner circumference of the outer member ( 10 ). The sealing member ( 16 ) with a first side lip ( 16 a ) is adhered to the metal core. The first side lip ( 16 a ) is inclined radially outward to oppose a metal annulus ( 17 ) mounted on a base ( 18 ) of a wheel mounting flange ( 4 ), via an axial gap. The sealing member second side lip ( 16 b ) is formed radially inward from the first side lip ( 16 a ) and is in sliding contact with the base ( 18 ), via an axial interference. The sealing member third side lip ( 19 a ) is inclined radially outward from a base ( 19 ), covering the outer surface of the metal core ( 15 ), toward the wheel mounting flange ( 4 ). The tip end of the third side lip ( 19 a ) is formed with a vertically flat surface opposing the inner-side surface ( 4 b ) of the wheel mounting flange ( 4, 28 ), via an axial gap (S 1 ), to form a first labyrinth seal ( 20 ). The outer edge of the metal annulus ( 17 ) opposes a sealing member ( 16 ), via an axial gap, to form a second labyrinth seal ( 25 ).

Claim (Index 8):
The wheel bearing apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising a bifurcated tip end of the first side lip has a pair of lips.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.39759
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12626790', '14039031', '13874742', '14513039', '12248933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8442536346700348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366123854197731
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8134895097450087
- Mean Citation Score: 390.627122
- Max Citation Score: 404.45514
- Similarity Product: 288.4717870914924

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

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