PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["034", "131000"]

Abstract:
A drying device in a wall-mounted washing machine includes a tub and a drying device. The drying device includes a fan coupled to the tub, a hot air supply duct coupled to the fan and configured to guide air from the fan into the tub, a drying heater disposed inside the hot air supply duct and configured to heat air introduced into the hot air supply duct, and a hot air discharge duct coupled to the tub and configured to guide air flowing from the tub toward the fan as well as dehumidify the air. The hot air discharge duct includes a first duct formation member disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the tub and a second duct formation member fused to the first duct formation member. The first duct formation member and the second duct formation member include fused surfaces formed on the same plane.

Claim (Index 2):
The wall-mounted washing machine of  claim 1 , wherein the second duct formation member comprises an end portion which comprises a flow path expanding portion protruding radially outward to expand an air flow path for air exiting from the tub.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90566
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14183719', '11397675', '11397676', '14119433', '13737539']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7791027582175091
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5138347516967696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7525759575654352
- Mean Citation Score: 327.750512
- Max Citation Score: 337.7448
- Similarity Product: 279.9410360478401

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