PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "00300R"]

Abstract:
A ventilation apparatus including a pump, a switching unit, and a fluid diffuser is provided. The pump attached to the footwear pumps fluid into and exhausts fluid from a cavity of the footwear. The switching unit in communication with the pump selectively changes modes of operation of the pump. The fluid diffuser connected to the pump within the cavity of the footwear includes a feed pipe for transferring the fluid pumped from the pump to the cavity of the footwear during a pump mode of operation and to transfer the fluid in the cavity of the footwear to an ambient environment external to the footwear during an exhaust mode of operation, for ventilating the footwear. In one or more embodiments, the fluid diffuser includes a diffusing member with one or more openings and/or a fluid distribution channel member for transferring the fluid to and from the cavity of the footwear.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for ventilating a footwear, comprising:\n providing said ventilation apparatus comprising a set of parts attached to said footwear, said set of parts comprising:\n a pair of electric pumps comprising a first electric pump disposed on an ankle section of said footwear and a second electric pump positioned within a sole of said footwear; \n a pair of switching units in electrical communication with said first electric pump and said second electric pump, wherein a first switching unit of said pair of switching units is disposed on said ankle section of said footwear, wherein a second switching unit of said pair of switching units is positioned within said sole of said footwear, wherein said pair of switching units selectively change modes of operation of said first electric pump and said second electric pump, said modes of operation comprising a pump mode and an exhaust mode; and \n a fluid diffuser operably connected to said first electric pump in said ankle section and operably connected to said second electric pump within a cavity of said footwear, said fluid diffuser comprising:\n a feed pipe fixedly connected to and extending from said first electric pump in said ankle section into a diffusing member inserted within said cavity of said footwear, said feed pipe positioned within said footwear proximal to an inner surface of said footwear, wherein said feed pipe transfers said fluid pumped from said first electric pump in said ankle section to said diffusing member in fluid communication with said feed pipe; and \n said diffusing member positioned and attached proximal to a front end of said footwear within said cavity of said footwear, said diffusing member comprising one or more openings to allow said fluid pumped from said first electric pump in said ankle section through said feed pipe to be transferred into said cavity of said footwear proximal to said front end of said footwear and to allow an exhaust fluid in said cavity of said footwear at a rear end of said footwear to be transferred via said second electric pump and through said feed pipe to an ambient environment external to said footwear, for ventilating said footwear. \n \n switching said first electric pump to said pump mode using said first switching unit, and switching said second electric pump to said exhaust mode using said second switching unit; pumping said fluid from said ambient environment external to said footwear into said cavity proximal to said front end of said footwear via said feed pipe and said openings of said diffusing member; suctioning and transferring said fluid in said cavity proximal to said front end of said footwear via said second electric pump to said rear end of said footwear; switching said second electric pump to said pump mode using said second switching unit, and switching said first electric pump to said exhaust mode using said first switching unit; pumping said exhaust fluid in said cavity proximal to said rear end of said footwear via said second electric pump to said cavity proximal to said front end of said footwear; and suctioning and transferring said exhaust fluid in said cavity proximal to said front end of said footwear via said openings of said diffusing member, via said feed pipe, and via said first electric pump to said ambient environment external to said footwear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14596128', '15700413', '12142881', '11995293', '11265663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6800309966536494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5968117308773933
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6717090700760239
- Mean Citation Score: 351.550302
- Max Citation Score: 586.9342
- Similarity Product: 556.1081843730211

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