PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["165", "171000"]

Abstract:
An evaporator includes a refrigerant conduit; and front and rear plates sandwiching the refrigerant conduit, each of the front and rear plates including: a plurality of ice forming columns; a set of first protrusions and a set of second protrusions defined therein, each first protrusion on the front plate and a corresponding first protrusion on the rear plate defining a respective active cavity and each second protrusion on the front plate and a corresponding second protrusion on the rear plate defining a respective passive cavity, the refrigerant conduit extending through each of the active cavities but not any of the passive cavities; and inner flat portions of the front plate and the rear plate facing each other to define respective spaced portions, wherein the active cavities and passive cavities are interspersed and separated by respective inner flat portions so as to define a plurality of ice forming sites.

Claim (Index 11):
An ice making system comprising:\n a refrigerant system for circulating refrigerant through an evaporator, the evaporator comprising:\n a refrigerant conduit; and \n front and rear plates sandwiching the refrigerant conduit, the front and rear plates comprising:\n a plurality of ice forming columns; \n a set of first protrusions defined in the respective ice forming columns, each first protrusion on the front plate facing a respective first protrusion on the rear plate to define a respective active cavity, the refrigerant conduit extending through each of the active cavities; \n a set of second protrusions defined in the respective ice forming columns, each second protrusion on the front plate facing a respective second protrusion on the rear plate to define a respective passive cavity, the refrigerant conduit not extending through any of the passive cavities; and \n inner flat portions, each inner flat portion of the front plate facing and spaced from a respective inner flat portion of the rear plate to define a respective spaced portion; \n wherein the location of the active and passive cavities is interspersed and separated by respective inner flat portions so as to define a plurality of ice forming sites in the ice forming columns of the respective plate; and \n \n a source of water positioned above the front and rear plates, the evaporator configured to form ice at each of the respective ice forming sites using liquid water from the source of water.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61667
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353833', '14022887', '10466833', '11722044', '15415951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8379501935895209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5698522806462433
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8111404022951932
- Mean Citation Score: 255.62462800000003
- Max Citation Score: 476.89053
- Similarity Product: 421.94888320880233

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

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