PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["062", "003630"]

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 1):
A refrigerator comprising:\n an icemaker housing with an internal volume on a door and having an icemaker; an ice tray rotatable about an axis in the icemaker and operably connected to a stationary member at a first end of the icemaker and a motor at a second end of the icemaker; a thermoelectric device fixedly attached to the ice tray and having a cold side and a warm side, the cold side thermally coupled to a bottom portion of the ice tray, and the warm side thermally coupled to a heat sink; a heat transfer device within the icemaker housing and thermally coupled to the heat sink; and a fan located adjacent to the ice tray and the thermoelectric device, the fan configured to circulate air:\n parallel to the axis of the ice tray; \n directly toward the thermoelectric device; and \n from the warm side of the thermoelectric device to an upper portion of the ice tray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97826
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15886537', '14673979', '13713199', '13713296', '14980072']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8267595207357885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335575021160676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7974393188738165
- Mean Citation Score: 305.593176
- Max Citation Score: 362.18848
- Similarity Product: 329.3900444150162

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