PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875041
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "504000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing unit is operatively associated with a refrigeration appliance for selectively dispensing water and ice at a dispensing station. The dispensing unit includes an actuator that is movable to selected positions in order to support the dispensing of the water and ice. The dispensing unit can include a passageway through which ice is dispensed, and an ice door can be provided for selectively opening and closing the passageway to the dispensing of ice. In one aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed mechanically and in another aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed electromechanically. The dispensing unit also can provide for the position of a water-dispensing nozzle to be adjusted for the purpose of dispensing water to receptacles outside a recessed area at which the nozzle is located and to provide for the activation of illuminating devices to indicate operating conditions at the refrigeration appliance.

Claim (Index 1):
A dispensing unit operatively associated with a refrigeration appliance for selectively dispensing water and ice at a dispensing station at the refrigeration appliance, the dispensing unit including:\n an actuator movable from a first position, at which first position the actuator supports neither the dispensing of water nor the dispensing of ice at the dispensing station, to a second position, at which second position the actuator supports the dispensing selectively of water and ice at the dispensing station, the actuator including a passageway through which ice can be selectively dispensed at the dispensing station when the actuator is in the second position and ice has been selected to be dispensed; an ice door closing off the passageway to the dispensing of ice when the actuator is in the first position and opening the passageway to the dispensing of ice when the actuator is in the second position and ice has been selected to be dispensed; a flapper coupled to the ice door and having a seating surface configured to seat against the bottom of a chute through which ice is delivered to the passageway; and a flapper supporting member coupled to the ice door and supporting the flapper, the flapper supporting member being joined to the flapper by a universal adjusting member, whereby the attitude of the flapper can be adjusted as the ice door engages the bottom of the chute so that the seating surface of the flapper seats against the bottom of the chute in a manner essentially entirely closing off the opening at the bottom of the chute to the passage of ice to the passageway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25714
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13709771', '14702907', '11331732', '11080724', '11514715']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8142472477054455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6015681635374287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.792979339288644
- Mean Citation Score: 348.46163199999995
- Max Citation Score: 523.25397
- Similarity Product: 521.1306347856491

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

Dataset: test