PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["074", "553000"]

Abstract:
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.

Claim (Index 20):
The appliance according to  claim 15 , wherein the valve comprises:\n a valve body that defines a gas flow path; a main adjustment part that is located inside of the valve body and that is configured to, based on the valve shaft rotating the main adjustment part, control a flow rate of gas in the gas flow path; an auxiliary adjustment part that is located inside of the valve body at a side of the main adjustment part, and that is configured to, based on the auxiliary adjustment part being rotated by a separate tool, control the flow rate of gas in the gas flow path; and a valve cap that is coupled to a front side of the valve body and that covers the front side of the valve body, and wherein the front panel defines a service hole that is located at a position corresponding to a projection of the auxiliary adjustment part to the front panel, and that allows access to the auxiliary adjustment part in a state in which the knob is separated from the front panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900251', '14859537', '14706035', '15064937', '12425469']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8263129052867926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106359656690568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7947452113250191
- Mean Citation Score: 262.472612
- Max Citation Score: 400.85184
- Similarity Product: 319.71430305416106

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

Dataset: test