PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900442
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 9):
The knob assembly according to  claim 1 , further comprising a knob ring sensor configured to sense the rotation operation of the knob ring,\n wherein the knob ring sensor generates a single of increasing and decreasing a timer time according to a rotation operation of the knob ring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900251', '15900389', '14859537', '15064937', '14706035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8232089606256252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5188256352764007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7927706280907028
- Mean Citation Score: 310.246072
- Max Citation Score: 443.27686
- Similarity Product: 325.65570371753336

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