PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947668
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["251", "129040"]

Abstract:
A motorized metering valve actuation mechanism having a drive motor with a drive motor spur gear and a metering valve an idler spur gear. In operation, the drive motor turns the drive motor spur gear which turns the idler spur gear to adjust flow through the metering valve. The idle spur gear moves up and down along the face of the drive motor spur gear as the metering valve is opened or closed.

Claim (Index 1):
A motorized metering valve actuation mechanism, comprising:\n a rigid mounting plate; a drive motor mounted to the mounting plate, the drive motor having:\n a drive shaft, and \n a drive motor spur gear mounted to the drive shaft; and \n a metering valve mounted to the mounting plate, the metering valve having:\n a drive shaft, and \n an idler spur gear mounted to the drive shaft, \n wherein the drive motor spur gear is in contact with the idler spur gear, and wherein the idler spur gear moves up and down along the face of the drive motor spur gear as the metering valve is opened or closed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12357216', '12514681', '10198359', '15707564', '15698137']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7247546943334197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4504236153835663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6973215864384343
- Mean Citation Score: 169.90638199999995
- Max Citation Score: 179.43283
- Similarity Product: 139.35118336507142

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

Dataset: test