PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900251
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 7):
A cooking appliance, comprising:\n a support frame fastened to an inner surface of a front panel; an actuating member fastened rotatably to the support frame; a knob ring back plate coupled to rotate with the actuating member integrally in an outer surface of the front panel; a knob ring body which is fastened to the knob ring back plate, forms an appearance of the knob ring, and rotatably operated by a user; a knob ring sensor which senses a rotation of the knob ring body; a display device which is arranged to an upper center of the knob ring body, and is rotatably operated with the knob ring body integrally, and displays information set by the operation of the knob ring sensor; a valve which is fixed inside the cooking appliance, and a flow of gas supplied to a burner to the valve shaft is controlled; a knob which provides a knob shaft connected to the valve shaft, arranged outside the knob ring, and rotatably operated by the user separately with the knob ring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900389', '14859537', '15064937', '14706035', '12425469']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7746378957903627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5135878660273219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7485328928140587
- Mean Citation Score: 252.01625
- Max Citation Score: 395.1199
- Similarity Product: 315.9343885295748

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