PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["038", "077900"]

Abstract:
A steam iron ( 10 ) comprises a steam generator ( 15 ) having a main body portion ( 15 a  ) including an electrical heating element ( 16 ) to heat the steam generator ( 15 ), and an ironing plate ( 13 ) coupled to the steam generator ( 15 ) via a thermal coupling and configured to be passively heated by conduction of heat from the steam generator ( 15 ) via the thermal coupling. The thermal coupling between the steam generator ( 15 ) and the ironing plate ( 13 ) comprises an indirect thermal path formed by a flange ( 22 ) of the steam generator ( 15 ), the flange ( 22 ) being in contact with the ironing plate ( 13 ) and being spaced from the main body portion ( 15 a  ) of the steam generator ( 15 ), the flange ( 22 ) also being configured to space the main body portion ( 15 a  ) of the steam generator ( 15 ) from the ironing plate ( 13 ) to restrict the conduction of heat from the main body portion ( 15 a  ) of the steam generator ( 15 ) to the ironing plate ( 13 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A steam iron comprising:\n a steam generator comprising a main body portion including an electrical heating element to heat the steam generator and a flange integrally formed with the main body portion and spaced therefrom; and an ironing plate thermally coupled to the steam generator and configured to be passively heated by conduction of heat from the steam generator, wherein the flange is in contact with a thermal distribution area integrally formed with the ironing plate to thermally couple the main body portion of the steam generator to the ironing plate via an indirect thermal path through the flange, the thermal distribution area being configured to dissipate heat evenly across an ironing surface of the ironing plate, the flange and the thermal distribution area being configured to space the main body portion of the steam generator from the ironing plate to form an air gap between the main body portion of the steam generator and the ironing plate, and to restrict the conduction of heat from the main body portion of the steam generator to the ironing plate, and wherein the thermal distribution area of the ironing plate comprises an area of increased thickness in a region where the flange contacts the ironing plate to enhance thermal distribution of conducted heat from the flange through the ironing plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.82143
- Patent Class: 38.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15325755', '14758340', '11722456', '13993544', '11630298']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6028477981585262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.54887577444495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5974505957871686
- Mean Citation Score: 285.673966
- Max Citation Score: 441.99506
- Similarity Product: 416.4463251382911

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

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