PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["074", "553000"]

Abstract:
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.

Claim (Index 13):
The knob assembly according to  claim 1 , further comprising a locking bracket including a locking piece that is configured to couple to the front side of the front panel, that protrudes to an inside of the knob, and that defines a passage groove at a rear side of the locking piece,\n wherein the knob includes a guide surface that has a ring shape and that is configured to interfere with the locking piece, the guide surface defining a cutting section configured to receive the locking piece in an initial position, and wherein the guide surface is further configured to:\n based on the knob being in the initial position, interfere with the locking piece to restrict rotation of the knob, and \n based on the knob being pushed from the initial position, define a plane coplanar with the passage groove to allow rotation of the knob.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900251', '14859537', '14706035', '15064937', '12425469']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8086095792685429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.508284563294102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7785770776710988
- Mean Citation Score: 262.472612
- Max Citation Score: 400.85184
- Similarity Product: 318.745337382431

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

Dataset: test