PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["236", "09200B"]

Abstract:
An expansion valve includes: a body having a second passage through which a refrigerant returning from an evaporator passes, and a mounting hole communicating with the second passage; a power element mounted on the body in such a manner as to close the mounting hole; a shaft that transmits a drive force from the power element to a valve element; and a plate that separates an open space from the second passage, has an insertion hole, through which the shaft extends, coaxially along a central axis of the plate, and limits a flow of the refrigerant from the second passage into the open space to a flow through a clearance between the shaft and the insertion hole. The insertion hole is formed such that an opening area of the clearance between the shaft and the insertion hole is 7.0 mm 2  or smaller.

Claim (Index 11):
The expansion valve according to  claim 3 , wherein the insertion hole has a cross section of a perfect circular shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23188
- Patent Class: 236.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15380189', '13843593', '15168891', '14839601', '14845196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7571864231826108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894734355736859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7304151244217183
- Mean Citation Score: 220.309464
- Max Citation Score: 235.1777
- Similarity Product: 185.3415278104544

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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