PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16156241
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["248", "205100"]

Abstract:
A reinforcement element includes a mounting plate with two plate halves spaced apart by a centre portion. In a first use mode, the reinforcement element is secured onto a mounting rail. The centre portion of the reinforcement element engages the mounting rail, and a mixing valve is secured to the mounting plate via a pattern front face mixing valve securing holes. A body of the mixing valve is at least partially supported by the plate halves of the mounting plate. In a second use mode, the mixing valve is secured to the reinforcement element via a pattern back face mixing valve securing holes, while the bottom plate of the centre portion at least partially engages and supports a body of the mixing valve.

Claim (Index 1):
A reinforcement element for the securing of a mixing valve to a mounting rail, the mixing valve being of the type that receives at least three conduits, the reinforcement element comprising:\n a mounting plate comprising a first plate half and a second plate half that are spaced apart by a centre portion and are arranged in a common plane; wherein the centre portion comprises two flanges and a bottom plate connected to an end of the flanges, each of the flanges being connected to a respective plate half of the mounting plate with an end remote from the bottom plate, wherein the bottom plate is arranged parallel to the common plane of the first plate half and the second plate half, and lies recessed from said plane, wherein the first and second plate halves of the mounting plate have a front face and a back face opposite the front face, the back face being the face from which the centre portion projects; wherein the reinforcement element has a pattern of holes, including:\n at least one pattern of reinforcement element securing holes to allow the reinforcement element to be secured onto the mounting rail; and \n at least a first, a second, and a third pattern of mixing valve securing holes, each pattern of mixing valve securing holes allowing a particular mixing valve to be secured onto the reinforcement element in a predefined manner, such that the reinforcement element can be mated with at least three different embodiments of mixing valves, \n wherein the patterns of mixing valve securing holes include at least one pattern of front face mixing valve securing holes, suited for use when the front face of the mounting plate faces away from the mounting rail, and at least one pattern of back face mixing valve securing holes, suited for use when the back face of the mounting plate faces away from the mounting rail, \n wherein the reinforcement element has a first use mode and a second use mode; wherein, in the first use mode, the reinforcement element is secured onto the mounting rail via one of the patterns of the reinforcement element securing holes, the centre portion engaging the mounting rail, the front face facing away from the mounting rail, and the mixing valve being secured to the mounting plate via a pattern of the front face mixing valve securing holes, while a body of the mixing valve is at least partially supported by the plate halves of the mounting plate, and wherein, in the second use mode, the reinforcement element is secured onto the mounting rail via one of the patterns of the reinforcement element securing holes, the plate halves of the mounting plate at least partially engaging the mounting rail, the back face facing away from the mounting rail, and the mixing valve being secured to the reinforcement element via one of the patterns of the back face mixing valve securing holes, while the bottom plate of the centre portion at least partially engages and supports a body of the mixing valve, and wherein, to secure a particular embodiment of mixing valve onto the reinforcement element,\n one pattern of the at least three patterns of mixing valve securing holes is used, and \n either the first use mode or the second use mode of the reinforcement element is used.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69388
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13641842', '09692721', '15319096', '13640459', '13050879']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8040597250903293
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812482935857462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771778581939871
- Mean Citation Score: 151.0458
- Max Citation Score: 172.20972
- Similarity Product: 111.20635403448344

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

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