PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["251", "315140"]

Abstract:
A ball valve assembly includes a duct with a central passage for the flow of fluids. A ball valve is rotatably mounted within the duct. The ball valve has a through bore selectively alignable in an operational position with the central passage to allow flow through the valve assembly. A lateral opening is provided in the duct. A handle attached to the ball valve extends through the lateral opening such that it is accessible from outside the duct to allow rotation of the ball valve. The ball valve, handle and duct are sized so that the ball valve and handle together are insertable into one end of the duct in a first orientation to an intermediate position, from which position and orientation the ball valve and handle together can be manipulated without the ball valve leaving the duct to a final position with a second orientation in which the handle extends out through the lateral opening and the ball valve is in its operational position.

Claim (Index 5):
The ball valve assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein the duct and ball valve are configured such that in the first orientation towards the intermediate position, there is contact between the ball valve and the duct in a manner tending to cause rotation of the ball valve and handle such that the end of the handle is moved towards the lateral opening.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54412
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14729450', '10880246', '13104242', '15271978', '10379631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7367859082489993
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4470732935651472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7078146467806141
- Mean Citation Score: 141.68957
- Max Citation Score: 148.06358
- Similarity Product: 111.42515975169658

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

Dataset: test