PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "00300R"]

Abstract:
A ventilation apparatus including a pump, a switching unit, and a fluid diffuser is provided. The pump attached to the footwear pumps fluid into and exhausts fluid from a cavity of the footwear. The switching unit in communication with the pump selectively changes modes of operation of the pump. The fluid diffuser connected to the pump within the cavity of the footwear includes a feed pipe for transferring the fluid pumped from the pump to the cavity of the footwear during a pump mode of operation and to transfer the fluid in the cavity of the footwear to an ambient environment external to the footwear during an exhaust mode of operation, for ventilating the footwear. In one or more embodiments, the fluid diffuser includes a diffusing member with one or more openings and/or a fluid distribution channel member for transferring the fluid to and from the cavity of the footwear.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for ventilating a footwear, comprising:\n providing said ventilation apparatus comprising a set of parts attached to said footwear, said set of parts comprising:\n an electric pump disposed on an ankle section of said footwear; \n a switching unit in electrical communication with said electric pump, said switching unit disposed on said ankle section of said footwear, wherein said switching unit selectively changes modes of operation of said electric pump, said modes of operation comprising:\n a pump mode for pumping said fluid from an ambient environment external to said footwear into a cavity of said footwear; and \n an exhaust mode for exhausting an exhaust fluid from said cavity of said footwear to said ambient environment external to said footwear; \n \n a fluid diffuser comprising:\n a diffusing member positioned within said cavity of said footwear and operably connected to said electric pump in said ankle section through a feed pipe; and \n said feed pipe connected to and extending from said electric pump in said ankle section into said diffusing member, said feed pipe positioned within said footwear proximal to an inner surface of said footwear. \n \n switching said electric pump to said pump mode using said switching unit and pumping said fluid from said ambient environment external to said footwear into said cavity of said footwear via said feed pipe and said diffusing member transfer; and switching said electric pump to said exhaust mode using said switching unit and suctioning and transferring said exhaust fluid in said cavity of said footwear to said ambient environment external via said feed pipe and said diffusing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14596128', '15700413', '12142881', '11995293', '11265663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6776262200021438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.603715329965138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6702351309984432
- Mean Citation Score: 351.550302
- Max Citation Score: 586.9342
- Similarity Product: 581.380594238031

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