PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862680
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["062", "353000"]

Abstract:
An ice maker includes, among other things, an ice cube mold, an ice cube remover and a force sensor comprising a piezo dielectric elastomer (PDE). The ice cube mold has at least one cavity for receiving liquid. The ice cube remover is configured to apply a removal force to either the mold or an ice cube. The force sensor is provided on either the mold or the remover and provides an output indicative of the removal force. Upon the removal of an ice cube from the cavity, the ice cube remover applies a removal force to the mold or the ice cube to effect the removal of the ice cube from the cavity and the force sensor outputs a signal indicative of the removal force.

Claim (Index 1):
An ice making assembly comprising:\n an ice maker having an output for expelling ice cubes; a storage bin defining an ice cube reservoir and having an opening in communication with the ice maker output; and a weight sensor comprising a piezo dielectric elastomer (PDE) provided below the storage bin and outputting a signal indicative of the weight of the ice cubes within the reservoir; wherein ice cubes expelled from the ice maker are received through the opening and stored in the ice cube reservoir, with the weight sensor providing an output indicative of the weight of the ice cubes within the reservoir.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56604
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14476796', '12607342', '12607287', '12607359', '11436079']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8379427517097463
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5247373295712382
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8066222094958955
- Mean Citation Score: 285.220708
- Max Citation Score: 350.2697
- Similarity Product: 271.86211580067874

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