PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["251", "164000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a trim arrangement for a ball valve. The trim arrangement includes a first seat assembly having a first seat, a threaded collar, and a biasing element. The first seat is in contact with a first side of a ball element, and the threaded collar is threadably coupled to the first seat and in engagement with the biasing element. The trim arrangement further includes a second seat assembly having a second seat in contact with a second side of the ball element. The biasing element biases the first seat toward the first side of the ball element to provide a contact stress between the first seat and the first side of the ball element and the second seat and the second side of the ball element. The contact stress provided by the biasing element is adjustable by rotating the first seat.

Claim (Index 10):
The ball valve of  claim 9 , wherein the first seat includes a first seat portion, a threaded portion, and a first seal portion, the threaded portion being between the first seat portion and the first seal portion, and the threaded collar being threadably coupled to the threaded portion of the first seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.5814
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12767582', '15242084', '14702383', '12771950', '13006237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7629873458480236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4898068430195456
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7356692955651759
- Mean Citation Score: 232.540764
- Max Citation Score: 242.18948
- Similarity Product: 146.6543296108246

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

Dataset: test