PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977546
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "487500"]

Abstract:
A fluid control device connectable to a fluid pipe includes an electric motor mechanically connected to a fluid valve configured to open and close the fluid valve. A manual motor disengagement knob is at least partially accessible to a user and mechanically connected to the fluid valve. The knob is configured to manually disengage the mechanical connection between the electric motor and the fluid valve while still engaging the fluid valve allowing the user to manually close or open the fluid valve without the assistance or interference of the electric motor. This is accomplished by a manual over-ride primary shaft translatably connected to a clutch shaft and in turn to the fluid valve, where the shaft in a first position is mechanically connected to the electric motor and in a second position the shaft is not mechanically connected to the electric motor.

Claim (Index 21):
A fluid control device connectable in series to a fluid pipe, the fluid control device comprising:\n a main valve body including a fluid inlet in fluidic communication with a fluid outlet and configured to be connectable in series to the fluid pipe; a fluid valve disposed in series within the main valve body separating the fluid inlet and fluid outlet, the fluid valve controlling a fluid flow through the main valve body; an electric motor having an electric motor output shaft mechanically connected to the fluid valve, the electric motor configured to open and close the fluid valve; a fluid control device processor in electrical communication with the electric motor; a fluid control device input/output port in electrical communication with the fluid control device processor, the fluid control device input/output port configured to be in electrical communication with a fluid monitoring and control system through a hard-wired communication line or through a wireless transmitter and receiver; and a manual motor disengagement knob at least partially accessible to a user and mechanically connected to the fluid valve, wherein the manual motor disengagement knob is configured to manually disengage the mechanical connection between the electric motor and the fluid valve while still engaging the fluid valve, thereby allowing the user to manually close or open the fluid valve without the assistance or interference of the electric motor; a clutch shaft rotatably disposed within the fluid control device and mechanically connected to the fluid valve wherein a rotation of the clutch shaft results in the same rotation of the fluid valve; a manual over-ride primary shaft translatably connected to the clutch shaft wherein a rotation of the manual over-ride primary shaft results in the same rotation of the clutch shaft yet the manual over-ride primary shaft can still translate with respect to the clutch shaft, wherein the manual motor disengagement knob is fixedly attached to the manual over-ride primary shaft, and wherein the manual over-ride primary shaft includes a manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear, wherein the manual over-ride primary shaft is translatable relative to the clutch shaft between a first position and a second position by the user, wherein in the first position the manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear is mechanically connected to the electric motor output shaft of the electric motor, and wherein in the second position the manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear is not mechanically connected to the electric motor output shaft; a clutch spring disposed between the manual over-ride primary shaft and the clutch shaft, wherein the clutch spring is configured to bias the manual over-ride primary shaft to the first position; a motor coupling spur gear fixedly attached to the electric motor output shaft, wherein the motor coupling spur gear is mechanically connected to the manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear when the manual over-ride primary shaft is in the first position; and an intermediate spur gear rotatably connected within the fluid control device and disposed between the motor coupling spur gear and the manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear, wherein the intermediate spur gear is mechanically connected to the manual over-ride primary shaft spur gear when the manual over-ride primary shaft is in the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40984
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12948466', '14549863', '10886357', '14559974', '13276661']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370524259942512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.463050997976283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7996522831924544
- Mean Citation Score: 207.907496
- Max Citation Score: 211.57706
- Similarity Product: 169.34287781541585

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