PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764589
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
A beverage dispenser ( 1 ) includes a cold water tank ( 20 ) for storing cold water ( 50 ), a carbonation tank ( 30 ) disposed with at least a bottom portion thereof being submerged in the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water thank ( 20 ), the carbonation tank being configured to generate carbonated water ( 60 ) by adding carbon dioxide gas to the cold water ( 50 ) supplied from the cold water tank ( 20 ), a carbonated water outlet passage ( 35 ) for taking out the carbonated water ( 60 ) from the carbonation tank ( 30 ) and a heater ( 41 ) for heating the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ). In order to sterilize the above beverage dispenser ( 1 ), the heater ( 41 ) is caused to heat the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ) to a temperature higher than a predetermined temperature, thereby to sterilize the cold water tank ( 20 ) and the carbonation tank ( 30 ). After the carbonated water ( 60 ) in the carbonation tank ( 30 ) is taken out via the carbonated water outlet passage ( 35 ), hot/warm water ( 70 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ) is cooled.

Claim (Index 2):
The sterilizing method of  claim 1 , wherein a portion of the carbonated water outlet passage is connected at least to the cold water tank, so that the carbonated water taken out of the carbonation tank is supplied to the cold water tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.42857
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11326785', '11588034', '10007438', '11036169', '11091327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8553720425831199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958641561354673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8194212539383546
- Mean Citation Score: 273.766648
- Max Citation Score: 281.14972
- Similarity Product: 208.9558690779376

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

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