PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["251", "212000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a valve for controlling the volume and flow characteristics of a fluid in a predictable controllable manner. Specifically, the invention relates to an air valve design for an internal combustion engine throttle body that proportionately manages air flow, pressure, and velocities through all stages of opening with consistent and measurable parameters through a concentric or near-concentric opening.

Claim (Index 11):
An iris mechanism on the front or exit end of a housing, the iris mechanism comprising:\n a plurality of arced plates, and a cam ring with a plurality of stud slots, wherein each arced plate has a rotating stud on a bottom surface that passes into one of a plurality of pass-through holes in the housing and a sliding stud on a top surface that protrudes into one of the stud slots; wherein one or more of the rotating studs extends and connects to one or more corresponding flow guides such that, when the iris mechanism is closed, the rotating studs transfer the movement of the arced plates to the flow guides, increasingly turning the flow guides toward the center of the iris mechanism as the iris mechanism closes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42553
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15001413', '15543824', '15543719', '13639022', '14769665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7109421820415287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4484917013120538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6846971339685812
- Mean Citation Score: 143.02437
- Max Citation Score: 149.00739
- Similarity Product: 109.22182777570902

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

Dataset: test