PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918314
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "876000"]

Abstract:
A directional flow control device includes a housing extending along a longitudinal axis between an inlet end and a discharge end. A flow deflector is received in the housing. The flow deflector is rotatable in the housing about a rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal axis. The flow deflector has a flow channel therethrough having an intake bore at a front end of the flow deflector and a discharge bore at a rear end of the flow deflector. The intake bore is coaxial with the rotation axis and the discharge bore is offset from the rotation axis.

Claim (Index 25):
A method of assembling a directional flow control device comprising:\n providing a shell having a cavity between a front end and a rear end; positioning a front housing in the cavity, the front housing having a front pocket and an inlet bore open to the front pocket; positioning a rear housing in the cavity, the rear housing having a rear pocket, a first outlet bore open to the rear pocket and a second outlet bore open to the rear pocket, wherein the front housing and the rear housing are aligned in the cavity along a longitudinal axis extending between an inlet end and an outlet end of the directional flow control device; providing a flow deflector having a hub with a front end and a rear end, the front end being positioned in the front pocket, the rear end being positioned in the rear pocket, the flow deflector having a flow channel therethrough, the flow channel having an intake bore at a front end of the flow deflector, the flow channel having a discharge bore at a rear end of the flow deflector; and positioning the flow deflector between the front housing and the rear housing such that the intake bore is in flow communication with the inlet bore, the hub being rotatable relative to the front housing and the rear housing about a rotation axis coaxial with the intake bore and the rotation axis being parallel to the longitudinal axis, the hub being rotated about the rotation axis between a first discharge position and a second discharge position wherein the discharge bore is configured to be in fluid communication with the first outlet bore when the hub is at the first discharge position and wherein the discharge bore is configured to be in fluid communication with the second outlet bore when the hub is at the second discharge position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31818
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15131794', '14494296', '09935425', '12514469', '13166260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8307941967295811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694944194956524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946642190061883
- Mean Citation Score: 195.74566
- Max Citation Score: 212.39613
- Similarity Product: 159.8593696742284

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