PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["169", "037000"]

Abstract:
An automatic fire protection sprinkler assembly and a method of sealing includes a sprinkler frame having an inlet, an outlet, an internal passageway extending between the inlet and the outlet, and a sealing surface formed about the outlet. The assembly also includes a thermally responsive trigger and a seal assembly disposed between the sealing surface and the thermally responsive trigger. The seal assembly includes a body having an inner surface defining an internal chamber. The inner surface has a portion disposed relative to the sealing surface such that a fluid disposed in the internal chamber and acting on the portion of the inner surface provides a sealing force in the direction of the sealing surface.

Claim (Index 36):
An automatic fire protection sprinkler assembly, comprising:\n a sprinkler frame having an inlet, an outlet and an internal passageway extending between the inlet and the outlet along a central axis, the frame including a sealing surface formed about the outlet; a thermally responsive trigger; and a seal assembly disposed between the sealing surface and the thermally responsive trigger, the seal assembly including a body having an inner surface defining an internal chamber about the central axis, the inner surface inward from the outer surface relative to the central axis, the inner surface including a portion disposed relative to the sealing surface such that a fluid disposed in the internal chamber acts on the portion of the inner surface to define a sealing force in a direction of the sealing surface; wherein the body of the seal assembly is symmetrical about each of a first plane and a second plane which are perpendicular to one another at an intersection that contains the central axis such that at least one of the first plane and the second plane bisects the body to define a bisected body having an elliptical outer profile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39216
- Patent Class: 169.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13877443', '14207377', '14922961', '14207370', '12515113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7148168567204756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5130877529077137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6946439463391995
- Mean Citation Score: 301.856872
- Max Citation Score: 312.18814
- Similarity Product: 242.1727239484298

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

Dataset: test