PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928553
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["362", "092000"]

Abstract:
A refrigerator equipped with a door that becomes transparent as necessary to make the interior thereof visible is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment defined therein, a lighting device for illuminating the interior of the storage compartment, a door, which is hingedly coupled to the cabinet to open and close the storage compartment, and has an opening and a panel assembly including a front panel disposed on the front surface thereof, a sensor for detecting sound waves, which are generated by a knock input applied to the door and are transmitted through the front panel, and a controller for controlling the lighting device to allow light to be transmitted through the panel assembly, thus making the storage compartment visible from outside the door through the opening when a predetermined knock input is detected.

Claim (Index 10):
A refrigerator comprising:\n a cabinet having a storage chamber defined therein; a lighting device arranged inside the storage chamber and configured to illuminate an interior of the storage chamber; a door connected to the cabinet and configured to open and close the storage chamber, the door comprising:\n a door frame having an opening defined therethrough; and \n a panel assembly configured to cover the opening of the door frame the panel assembly comprising:\n a front panel configured to cover at least a portion of the opening defined in the door frame, the front panel comprising:\n a masking layer configured to at least partially block transmission of light therethrough, \n \n \n a sensor arranged in the door, the sensor comprising:\n a microphone configured to detect a sound wave from a knock that is input on the door; and \n an accommodation part that is in contact with the front panel of the panel assembly of the door, \n wherein, in a state in which the accommodation part of the sensor is in contact with the front panel, the accommodation part and the front panel form a space between the microphone and the front panel at a location that is covered by the masking layer, and \n at least one processor configured to activate the lighting device based on the sensor detecting the sound wave from the knock that was input on the door.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98649
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15662469', '15306862', '15310043', '15399161', '15561640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8668072771878252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5421783862114904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8343443880901917
- Mean Citation Score: 349.44631799999985
- Max Citation Score: 411.0257
- Similarity Product: 387.7022946308314

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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