PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042816
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["222", "189010"]

Abstract:
A portable fuel container configured to prevent liquid fuel contained therein from being entirely emptied from the container. The amount of liquid fuel retained in the container can be sufficient to maintain a fuel-to-air ratio in the container at a fuel-rich level that prevents combustion within the container if the container were to be placed near an ignition source or if an ignition source were to somehow enter the container. The container can also include other safety features such as, for example, a flash suppressor located at the fill opening, an extra wide fill opening, and/or an easily controllable dispensing spout. When a flash suppressor is employed, the perforations in the flash suppressor can be configured to retain fuel therein after fuel has been dispensed from the container and the flash suppressor is no longer submerged in fuel.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of using a portable gasoline container, said method comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing the container comprising a fuel-receiving chamber, a main container opening, and a flash suppressor located proximate the main container opening, wherein the flash suppressor is formed of a synthetic resin material and includes a plurality of perforations through which fuel is configured to flow; (b) filling the container with fuel, wherein during said filling of step (b) fuel flows through the flash suppressor and into the fuel-receiving chamber at a rate of at least five gallons per minute; and (c) dispensing fuel from the container, wherein during said dispensing of step (c) fuel flows from the fuel-receiving chamber and through the flash suppressor, wherein after said dispensing of step (c), the flash suppressor retains a sufficient quantity of fuel to prevent combustion within the flash suppressor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8375
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927133', '14487893', '15892119', '14638229', '14479057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8004289255127229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5762294968138036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.778008982642831
- Mean Citation Score: 363.389528
- Max Citation Score: 507.82794
- Similarity Product: 427.28305244980567

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

Dataset: test