PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942641
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["138", "043000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure is directed to couplers which significantly reduce the production of noise when disconnected from a mating coupler, thus addressing a significant occupational safety problem in the field of compressed air couplings. Accordingly, one aspect of the disclosure provides a coupler which may be used to connect/disconnect an air hose subjected to high air pressure while suppressing or dampening the noise typically produced upon disconnecting the coupler. In some examples, a coupler is provided with a valve having axial passageways that facilitate the relatively free flow of air during normal operation that become partially occluded upon an action disconnecting the coupler to significantly reduce sound levels.

Claim (Index 24):
The safety coupler of  claim 23 , wherein the valve has less than a 5 psi pressure drop when in the normal airflow position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48684
- Patent Class: 138.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10353349', '13924442', '15447033', '15410636', '13924430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7454622873316981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856156352359347
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7194776221221217
- Mean Citation Score: 177.738404
- Max Citation Score: 189.12991
- Similarity Product: 104.78000307153344

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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