PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["084", "390000"]

Abstract:
A valved wind instrument including a tubular body having a tuning section, a lead pipe connected to a first end of the tuning section and a bell pipe connected to a second end of the tuning section, said tubular body being configured to allow a vibrating column of air to pass therethrough; wherein the tuning section includes an air inlet port for receiving air flow from the lead pipe at the first end, an air outlet port for delivering said air flow to the bell tube at the second end, a plurality of user operable valves; wherein each valve of said plurality of valves is in fluid communication with an adjacent valve by a first tubular portion so as to provide fluid communication between the inlet port and the outlet port, and wherein each valve of said plurality of valves is user moveable between a first position and a second position and each so as to increase the air pathway length between the inlet port and the outlet port by way of a second tubular portion; and wherein each second tubular portions is coplanar with each other, and wherein the second tubular portions are integrally formed from a polymeric material within the tuning section, wherein the tuning section is provided by molded first and second body member that are bonded together and sealingly engaged along a plane parallel to the longitudinal axes of the second tubular portions.

Claim (Index 5):
A valved wind instrument as claimed in  claim 1  including at least one intermediate planar layer disposed between the planar surfaces of the valve and of the tuning section, said at least one intermediate planar layer including at least one of a polymeric material and a ceramic material, and preferably including a sealing gasket layer disposed between the planar surfaces of the valve and of the tuning section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10625215', '10862816', '12455986', '11306954', '13035957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6382765221231809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807083503219564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6225197049430584
- Mean Citation Score: 191.99511
- Max Citation Score: 203.55634
- Similarity Product: 140.79624038106084

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

Dataset: test