PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16354727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["312", "405000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a refrigerator. While a user is holding an object in both hands, a door may be automatically and additionally opened using another part of a body other than hands.

Claim (Index 1):
A refrigerator comprising:\n a cabinet defining a storage space; a door configured to open and close the storage space by rotating about a vertical hinge axis; a hinge configured to couple the door to the cabinet and defining the vertical hinge axis; and a door opening device provided at the door and configured open the door; wherein the door opening device includes: a case, a driving motor, and a push rod provided in the case and configured to be pushed out of the case based on being actuated by the driving motor to thereby open the door, the push rod being positioned between the driving motor and the hinge and having a curved rack that is convex relative to the hinge axis, wherein the curved rack is horizontally curved along a rotating direction of the door.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.21429
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15532785', '15699152', '15699268', '15699396', '15699033']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8165916136002184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5910689276865958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7940393450088561
- Mean Citation Score: 379.56903
- Max Citation Score: 489.73865
- Similarity Product: 480.9410405937909

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