PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750468
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["034", "082000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus having a washable filter provided on an air circulation conduit for drying laundry. Disclosed is the laundry treating apparatus that is capable of automatically or manually washing the filter. The laundry treating apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises: a cabinet ( 1 ); an outer tub ( 2 ) disposed within the cabinet ( 1 ); an inner tub ( 3 ) rotatably disposed within the outer tub ( 2 ); a circulation conduit ( 10 ) that serves as a guide to allow at least a part of air within the outer tub ( 2 ) to be discharged from the outer tub ( 2 ) and supplied back to the outer tub ( 2 ); a fan ( 17 ) disposed on the circulation conduit ( 10 ) to move air; a filter net ( 22 ) disposed on the circulation conduit ( 10 ) to filter foreign substances included in the moving air; a filter frame ( 24 ) that supports the filter net ( 22 ); and a nozzle ( 32 ) that sprays water to remove the foreign substances filtered by the filter net ( 22 ). At least a part of the filter frame ( 24 ) includes an extraction frame ( 24 a ) that is able to be extracted from the cabinet ( 1 ).

Claim (Index 17):
The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 8 ,\n wherein the outer tub has an opening formed in a front side surface thereof for introduction of laundry, wherein the circulation conduit is formed so that air flows into the circulation conduit from a rear side of the outer tub to move upward, curves forward, and be then discharged toward a front side of the outer tub, and wherein the filter net is disposed at a downstream side of a portion, at which the circulation conduit is bent forward from an upward direction, to vertically cross the circulation conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83908
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13747996', '15223259', '14607656', '13757428', '13111707']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7437461521325438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756945143702653
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7169409883563159
- Mean Citation Score: 221.303158
- Max Citation Score: 231.8838
- Similarity Product: 193.27771066313983

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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