PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027613
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["440", "075000"]

Abstract:
An outboard motor for a marine vessel application, transmission devices for such an outboard motor, and related methods of making, operating, and modifying attributes of same, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the motor includes a horizontal-crankshaft engine in an upper portion of the motor, positioned substantially above a trimming axis of the motor. In at least another embodiment, first, second and third transmission devices are employed to transmit rotational power from the engine to propeller(s). In at least a further embodiment, the motor is made to include a rigid interior assembly formed by the engine, multiple transmission devices, and a further structural component. In further embodiments, the motor includes numerous cooling, exhaust, and/or oil system components, and/or other transmission features. In at least some additional embodiments, a transmission device of the motor is configured to facilitate gear ratio variation and/or includes an integrated oil pump.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of modifying a gear ratio of a first transmission device on an outboard motor, the method comprising:\n removing a cover from a primary housing of the first transmission device so as to reveal power train components supported within the primary housing, the power train components including first and second gears; removing first and second fastening components by which the first and second gears are respectively affixed to first and second shafts respectively extending within the first transmission device; removing the first and second gears from the first transmission device via an orifice within the primary housing; providing third and fourth gears respectively as replacements for the first and second gears, respectively; affixing the third and fourth gears with respect to the first and second shafts; and attaching the cover to the primary housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95506
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13861918', '15806599', '13831070', '14831634', '13026203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6836141990211319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5959484005056549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6748476191695841
- Mean Citation Score: 450.9045319999999
- Max Citation Score: 499.32214000000016
- Similarity Product: 488.7659445506288

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