PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16459016
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["604", "045000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a housing can define a reservoir. A lower cap can be coupled to the housing and define an outlet, and an upper cap can be coupled to the housing and can define an inlet. The upper cap can include an extending portion extending laterally a distance beyond an outermost extending portion of the lower cap relative to a central axis of the housing such that, when the lower cap and the extending portion of the upper cap contact a horizontal surface, the central axis of the housing is transverse to the surface and a sealing member is configured to sealingly engage a sealing surface of a valve seat prior to a liquid fluid level within a reservoir decreasing below a minimum threshold fluid level.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a housing including a cylindrical sidewall, the cylindrical sidewall including an inner surface defining a reservoir and an outer surface, the housing having a first end and a second end, the cylindrical sidewall configured to be deformed between an undeformed and a deformed configuration; a first cap defining an inlet, the first cap coupled to the first end of the housing; a second cap defining an outlet, the second cap coupled to the second end of the housing; a deformable valve seat having a first end, a second end, and a sealing surface, the valve seat defining a through-hole from the first end to the second end, the through-hole having a central axis, the second end coupled to the second cap such that the through-hole is in fluid communication with the outlet of the second cap; and a sealing member configured to float at a liquid fluid level within the reservoir and to seal with the sealing surface of the valve seat prior to the liquid fluid level within the reservoir decreasing below a minimum threshold fluid level, the sealing member configured to transition from a sealed configuration in which the seal is engaged with the sealing surface to an unsealed configuration in which the sealing member floats at the liquid fluid level when the liquid fluid level is above the minimum threshold fluid level and the cylindrical sidewall is flexed to the deformed configuration such that the valve seat is deformed and a seal between the sealing member and the sealing surface is disrupted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31034
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13050707', '15080416', '12148321', '14164835', '15354635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7770411063631713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774025607189786
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7470772517987521
- Mean Citation Score: 203.711728
- Max Citation Score: 210.61765
- Similarity Product: 155.4332470510602

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

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