PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761510
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["126", "03900E"]

Abstract:
A gas burner arrangement ( 1 ) for a gas-cooking appliance ( 10 ), particularly a gas hob ( 10 ), comprising at least one gas burner ( 2 ) adapted to receive a fuel flow from a fuel supply ( 3 ) and for providing a fuel-supplied flame ( 4 ) to a cooking vessel ( 5 ), at least one support ( 6 ) arranged to support the cooking vessel ( 5 ) above the gas burner ( 2 ), particularly above the fuel-supplied flame ( 4 ), a thermocouple ( 7 ) adapted to generate a thermocouple signal ( 8 ) depending on the thermal state of said thermo-couple ( 7 ), and a control unit ( 9 ) connected to the thermocouple ( 7 ), the control unit ( 9 ) being adapted to receive the thermocouple signal ( 8 ) and to process said thermocouple signal ( 8 ) to an output signal, wherein the control unit ( 9 ) is capable of determining if the cooking vessel is placed on the support ( 6 ), particularly above the fuel-supplied flame ( 4 ), dependent on the thermocouple signal ( 8 ).

Claim (Index 17):
A gas burner arrangement for a gas-cooking appliance, comprising a gas burner adapted to receive a fuel mixture from a fuel supply and to provide a fuel-supplied flame to a cooking vessel supported above said flame, a thermocouple positioned adjacent to said flame and in a position below said cooking vessel when said cooking vessel is supported above said flame, said thermocouple being adapted to generate a thermocouple signal depending on a thermal state thereof, a control unit connected to the thermocouple, the control unit being adapted to receive the thermocouple signal and to determine therefrom if the cooking vessel is supported above said flame by comparing said thermocouple signal to a first predetermined set value for a first predetermined amount of time, and to generate an output signal, based on said thermocouple signal in comparison to said first predetermined set value, indicating whether said cooking vessel is supported above said flame, said control unit further being connected to an electronic valve effective control whether said fuel mixture is received by the gas burner from said fuel supply, said control unit being adapted to operate said electronic valve to lower or turn off a flow of said fuel mixture to said burner if no cooking vessel is detected above said fuel-supplied flame, based on comparing said thermocouple signal to said first predetermined value during said first period of time, said fuel supply comprising an air actuator for delivering air to said fuel mixture and a gas actuator for delivering fuel to said fuel mixture, said control unit being connected to and effective to operate each of said air actuator and said fuel actuator to thereby regulate a composition of said fuel mixture for supply to said burner via said electronic valve, thereby providing closed-loop combustion control of said fuel-supplied flame wherein said thermocouple signal constitutes a feedback signal for control of an air/fuel ratio in said fuel mixture, said thermocouple signal comprising a thermos-tension or a thermoelectric current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01449
- Patent Class: 126.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12271905', '12409246', '14842371', '11572083', '13640191']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8360445868723666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4701728507482947
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7994574132599594
- Mean Citation Score: 208.826938
- Max Citation Score: 213.72046
- Similarity Product: 179.51390701704983

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

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