PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["062", "003300"]

Abstract:
An ice making apparatus for an appliance includes a housing that has an interior volume and an ice tray horizontally suspended across the interior volume that is configured to retain water. The ice making apparatus also includes a heat pump thermally coupled to a bottom surface of the ice tray. The heat pump is configured to freeze water in the ice tray and expel heat. A heat transfer device is configured to move heat expelled by the heat pump to an upper portion of the interior volume.

Claim (Index 18):
A method comprising:\n providing a refrigerator with an icemaker housing with an icemaker on a door of the refrigerator, the icemaker housing having an interior volume; providing an ice tray having an axis suspended within the interior volume of the icemaker housing, the ice tray having reservoirs containing water and a bottom surface thermally coupled to a thermoelectric device; transferring heat from the bottom surface of the ice tray across the thermoelectric device to a heat transfer device within the icemaker housing and below the ice tray; transferring heat from the heat transfer device to the air below the ice tray within the interior volume of the icemaker housing; circulating the air from an air movement device located adjacent the icemaker and the thermoelectric device within the icemaker housing and circulating air parallel to the axis and the thermoelectric device, such that heat from the bottom surface of the ice tray is transferred to a top surface of the water; forming substantially clear ice pieces in the ice tray; harvesting the substantially clear ice pieces by rotating the ice tray and thermoelectric device about the axis by a motor operably coupled to the ice tray such that the substantially clear ice pieces fall out of the ice tray by gravity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97826
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14673979', '13713199', '13713296', '14980072', '13713262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8464738120205635
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5321694458833797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8150433754068451
- Mean Citation Score: 300.73327
- Max Citation Score: 370.70984
- Similarity Product: 327.3518200293827

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

Dataset: test