PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["074", "553000"]

Abstract:
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.

Claim (Index 19):
The appliance according to  claim 16 , wherein the joint further comprises:\n a joint spring that is located between the first shaft coupling portion and the second shaft coupling portion, and that allows the knob shaft to couple to the valve shaft regardless of deviation of at least one of the knob shaft or the valve shaft from the coaxial direction; and a joint housing that accommodates the first shaft coupling portion, the second shaft coupling portion, and the joint spring, and that is configured to transfer the rotational motion of the first shaft coupling portion to the second shaft coupling portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900251', '14859537', '14706035', '15064937', '12425469']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8275082183068501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.507895467737347
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955469432498998
- Mean Citation Score: 262.472612
- Max Citation Score: 400.85184
- Similarity Product: 270.8381263295745

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