PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15776607
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["137", "269000"]

Abstract:
An automatic valve actuator unit and method for use with an associated manual shutoff valve configured to permit or restrict the flow of fluid through an associated supply pipe. The unit comprises a housing, an attachment mechanism for securing the housing to at least one of the associated supply pipe or manual shutoff valve, and an actuator at least partially supported in the housing and having an output shaft extending from the housing. The output shaft includes a locating member supported at a distal end thereof for non-rotatingly engaging a surface of a valve handle of the associated manual shutoff valve adjacent a point of attachment of the handle to the associated manual shutoff valve, the locating member configured to center the output shaft over an axis of rotation of the handle of the associated manual shutoff valve.

Claim (Index 18):
An automatic valve actuator unit for use with an associated manual shutoff valve configured to permit or restrict the flow of fluid through an associated supply pipe, the unit comprising:\n a housing; an attachment mechanism for securing the housing to at least one of the associated supply pipe or manual shutoff valve; and an actuator at least partially supported by the housing for actuating the associated shutoff valve; wherein the attachment mechanism includes a clamp assembly having first and second cooperating clamp members, the first and second cooperating clamp members being movable within the housing to adjust a point of attachment of the housing; wherein the first clamp member includes a clamp block supported for sliding movement within the housing between an upper and lower position, and wherein the second clamp member includes a removable u-shape clamp; the attachment mechanism including an adjustment member for adjusting the position of the clamp block within the housing, the adjustment member operative to move the clamp block between the upper and the lower positions; and wherein the adjustment member includes a lead screw including a threaded shaft with a non-circular cross-sectional portion, and a handle member including a tubular portion telescoped over the threaded shaft, the tubular portion including a non-circular cross-sectional portion corresponding in shape to the non-circular cross-sectional portion of the shaft, the handle member being slidable axially along the threaded shaft between a first position whereat the non-circular cross-sections are not axially aligned and the threaded shaft and handle member are not rotationally interlocked, to a second position whereat the non-circular cross-sections are at least partially aligned thereby rotationally interlocking the handle member and the threaded shaft for actuation of the lead screw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11536707', '15042954', '11846559', '14850421', '10855074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8312265622328241
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614275212103857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7942466581305803
- Mean Citation Score: 189.61144
- Max Citation Score: 204.2595
- Similarity Product: 162.5409625831246

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

Dataset: test