PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047517
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["312", "405000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a refrigerator having only a second door opened/closed or having both of a first door and a second door opened/closed using one handing by allowing a latch device to fix the second door to the first door or release the second door from being fixed to the first door. The refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment, a first door that is rotatably disposed in front of the main body and has an opening formed therein, a second door that is rotatably disposed in front of the first door to open/close the opening, a handle coupled to a front side of the second door to open/close the first door and the second door, and a latch device allowing the second door to be fixed and released to/from the first door.

Claim (Index 1):
A refrigerator comprising:\n a main body having a storage compartment; a first door for the storage compartment disposed at a front side of the main body and having an opening formed therein; a second door disposed at a front side of the first door, and which opens and closes to open and close, respectively, the opening of the first door; a handle disposed at the second door; and a latch device comprising:\n a fixing unit provided at the first door; \n a support separably coupled to the handle and disposed between the handle and the second door; \n a handle lever rotatably coupled to the support by a rotation shaft and including a first portion and a second portion configured so that\n when the first portion is pressed, the first portion rotates about the rotation shaft forward and a second portion rotates about the rotation shaft downward, to thereby allow the second door to open and close alone, and \n when the first portion is released after being pressed, the first portion rotates about the rotation shaft backward and the second portion rotates about the rotation shaft upward, to thereby allow the first door and the second door to open and close together; and \n \n a guide provided at the second door for the second portion of the handle lever to extend therethrough.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15852524', '14643612', '15348378', '14642939', '14640088']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8410406137578008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5509729440699919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8120338467890199
- Mean Citation Score: 364.852758
- Max Citation Score: 421.85367
- Similarity Product: 407.2363531939352

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