PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["251", "086000"]

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 1):
A knob assembly, comprising:\n a front panel which forms a front surface of a cooking appliance; a knob which is arranged on front of the front panel and rotates according to an operation of a user; a knob shaft which is provided in the knob and coupled by penetrating through the front panel; a valve which is fixed to inside the cooking appliance and has a valve shaft which a rotation operation is transferred; a joint which is coupled to the knob shaft and the valve shaft and transfers a rotation motion and a straight line motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft, wherein the joint comprises: a first shaft coupling portion coupled to the valve shaft, a second shaft coupling portion coupled to the knob shaft, a joint spring which is arranged between the first shaft coupling portion and the first shaft coupling portion and absorbs an axial longitudinal deviation of the knob shat and the valve shaft; and a joint housing which receives the first shaft coupling portion, the second shaft coupling portion, and the joint spring, and transfers the rotation motion of the first shaft coupling portion to the second shaft coupling portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900389', '15900251', '14859537', '14706035', '15064937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7457015086257667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5093564780761517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7220670055708052
- Mean Citation Score: 263.79776200000003
- Max Citation Score: 362.10934
- Similarity Product: 301.2528325290752

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

Dataset: test