PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["062", "003600"]

Abstract:
A refrigerator may include a sensor configured to measure temperature, a thermoelectric device module having at least one fan and configured to cool the storage compartment; and a controller that controls a rotation speed of the fan. The rotation speed of the fan may be determined based on at least one of whether a storage compartment temperature condition measured by the sensor exists or whether an initial power input condition exists. The thermoelectric device module may be controlled differently in a first temperature region, in a second temperature region, and in a third temperature region of the storage compartment. When an initial power condition exist such that power is initially supplied to the refrigerator, the fan is controlled to spin at a rotation speed that exceeds a rotation speed corresponding to the third temperature region until a preset temperature within the second temperature region is reached.

Claim (Index 1):
A refrigerator comprising:\n a sensor configured to measure the temperature of a storage compartment; a thermoelectric device module having at least one fan and configured to cool the storage compartment; and a controller that controls a rotation speed of the fan, wherein the rotation speed of the fan is determined based on at least one of whether a storage compartment temperature condition measured by the sensor exists or whether an initial power input condition exists, wherein the controller determines whether the storage compartment temperature condition exists based on whether the temperature of the storage compartment falls within a first temperature region that includes a set temperature input by the user, a second temperature region which is higher than the first temperature region, and a third temperature region which is higher than the second temperature region, wherein in the first temperature region, the fan spins at a first rotation speed higher than 0 RPM, in the second temperature region, the fan spins at a second rotation speed greater than or equal to the first rotation speed, and in the third temperature region, the fan spins at a third rotation speed which exceeds the first rotation speed and is greater than or equal to the second rotation speed, and wherein, when the initial power condition exist such that power is initially supplied to the refrigerator, the fan is controlled to spin at a rotation speed that exceeds the third rotation speed corresponding to the third temperature region until a preset temperature within the second temperature region is reached, even after the temperature of the storage compartment drops into the second temperature region from the third temperature region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31343
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12871002', '13691919', '15257532', '15248520', '14794352']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.802922701911872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4617326603109485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7688036977517796
- Mean Citation Score: 141.838806
- Max Citation Score: 150.84221000000005
- Similarity Product: 116.34662221475368

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

Dataset: test