PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["251", "305000"]

Abstract:
A soft-sealing, concentric butterfly valve for mounting with grooved couplings or flanges in a pipe system. The butterfly valve comprising a valve housing with a through running boring with a rotary damper, mounted to a spindle placed upright in a circular-cylindrical valve seat, said valve seat being equipped internally with conical contact surfaces for the damper, and the valve housing comprises on a first side a coupling end piece cast in one piece with the valve housing and equipped with an external circular groove. The valve has a removable coupling part, comprising a second coupling end piece equipped with an external circular groove, mounted to said second side of the valve housing, and said valve seat is compressed between the valve housing and the removable coupling part and surrounds the damper to provide a leak proof connection.

Claim (Index 2):
The butterfly valve according to  claim 1 , wherein the spindle runs through the valve seat, and the valve seat comprises integrated sealing rings for the spindle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16176
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15543521', '15040435', '15127865', '15210528', '14756825']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7478500010012498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4650802772791225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.719573028629037
- Mean Citation Score: 178.78111199999995
- Max Citation Score: 185.59795
- Similarity Product: 130.76939071583152

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