PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875041
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "504000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing unit is operatively associated with a refrigeration appliance for selectively dispensing water and ice at a dispensing station. The dispensing unit includes an actuator that is movable to selected positions in order to support the dispensing of the water and ice. The dispensing unit can include a passageway through which ice is dispensed, and an ice door can be provided for selectively opening and closing the passageway to the dispensing of ice. In one aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed mechanically and in another aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed electromechanically. The dispensing unit also can provide for the position of a water-dispensing nozzle to be adjusted for the purpose of dispensing water to receptacles outside a recessed area at which the nozzle is located and to provide for the activation of illuminating devices to indicate operating conditions at the refrigeration appliance.

Claim (Index 10):
The dispensing unit of  claim 1 , further comprising an electric motor operatively associated with the ice door and configured to cause the ice door to open the passageway to the dispensing of ice whenever the actuator is in the second position and ice has been selected to be dispensed at the dispensing station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25714
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13709771', '14702907', '11331732', '11080724', '11514715']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8016295942972209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5770837981682098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791750146843198
- Mean Citation Score: 348.46163199999995
- Max Citation Score: 523.25397
- Similarity Product: 418.7760281676382

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

Dataset: test