PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["134", "018000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of controlling a dispenser for dosing a product in a washing machine leading to an optimized dosing result, a dispenser controller programmed with an algorithm to execute the method of the present invention as well as the use of said dispenser for controlling dosing of a product in a washing machine.

Claim (Index 3):
A detergent dispenser comprising:\n a dispenser; a controller adapted to be coupled to the dispenser and a measuring device for measuring at least one parameter c*, wherein c* corresponds to the concentration of a detergent in the dispenser; at least one processor; and at least one non-volatile memory programmed with an algorithm to execute a method, the method comprising:\n (a) providing a washing machine comprising measuring means for measuring at least one parameter (c*) corresponding to the concentration of a detergent in a solution present in at least part of said washing machine, a dispenser to dispense said detergent, said dispenser being equipped with a reversibly closable output device having a minimum opening time (t min ) the dispenser has to be opened, and a dispenser controller coupled to said measuring means and said dispenser, including at least one processor and at least one non-volatile memory for recording, calculating, controlling and/or storing process parameters; \n (b) measuring, after an initial mixing and/or waiting time, at least one said parameter (c*) to determine the current concentration of the detergent in the machine (c* cur ); \n (c) calculating the difference (\u0394c*) between the setpoint (c* set ) and the current concentration in the machine (c* cur ); \n (d) calculating and storing a current feed rate per minimum opening time (dc*/t min ) based on an average feed rate per minimum opening time determined from a plurality of a number (n) of prior dispensing events; \n (e) initiating dispensing of said detergent to said machine by opening said reversibly closable output devise for a dosing time (t dos ) resulting from the ratio (\u0394c*/(dc*/t min )) of the difference between the set point and the current concentration (\u0394c*) to the current feed rate per minimum opening time (dc*/t min ); and \n wherein dispensing is initiated if (c* cur ) is more than x 1  below the setpoint (c* set ); and wherein dispensing is initiated if (c* cur ) is in the range of from (100%\u2212x 1 ) of the setpoint (c* set ) to below 100% of the setpoint (c* set ) and the sum (c* cur +\u0394c*) of the current concentration (c* cur ) and the difference between the setpoint and the current concentration (\u0394c*) does not exceed (100%+x 2 ) of the setpoint (c* set ); and wherein x 1  is 0<x 1 \u226425% and x 2  is 0<x 2 \u226440%; and wherein the minimum opening time (t min ) is from about 0.25 seconds (s) to about 1 second.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14363714', '10145227', '11416770', '12601891', '15633060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.834301596186681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5196530896440887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8028367455324218
- Mean Citation Score: 181.290938
- Max Citation Score: 338.44955
- Similarity Product: 290.3103662244618

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

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