PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["015", "001700"]

Abstract:
A swimming pool cleaner is driven along a submerged surface by water and debris flowing past a turbine positioned between an inlet and outlet of the cleaner. Retractable elements carried proximate the inlet form a plenum for water to enhance adherence of the pool cleaner to the submerged pool surface being cleaner. A drive train independently drives each of two wheels for maneuvering the pool cleaner in forward and reverse directions along the submerged surface. A hose connector operable with an outlet port is angled toward the forward direction of movement of the pool cleaner such that a suction hose will be placed slightly ahead of the pool cleaner when climbing a side wall surface to provide a weight for keeping the cleaner below the water surface and thus prevent an undesirable sucking of air at the inlet.

Claim (Index 24):
A pool cleaner comprising:\n a housing having a bottom with an inlet port on a bottom thereof and a outlet port on a top thereof; a turbine within the housing and positioned between the inlet port and outlet port in such a way that the turbine intercepts water passing between the inlet port and outlet port; a first wheel and a second wheel positioned on opposed sides of the housing and operably connected to the turbine in such a way that the turbine drives the wheels, the first wheel and second wheel having an outer diameter defining an outer perimeter thereof; a first axle extending between the opposed sides of the housing and forward the inlet port; a second axle extending between the opposed sides of the housing and aft the inlet port; a skirt formed around the inlet port forming a plenum that suctions the housing against the pool surface to be cleaned, the skirt including a plurality of tubular members through which the first axle or second axle extends, an outer dimension of the first axle and second axle being smaller than a diameter of an inner surface for permitting a portion of the tubular member to extend beyond the perimeter and for retracting the portion within the perimeter of the wheels responsive to movement along the submerged surface; and a forward partition and an aft partition extending between the opposed sides, the forward partition fixed forward the inlet port and the aft partition fixed aft the inlet port, wherein free ends of the partitions extend toward the perimeter and are spaced therefrom, wherein an outer surface of the forward partition includes a concave shape extending from the free end thereof toward a forward direction of movement of the pool cleaner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79747
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14685861', '14017758', '14976404', '10296778', '12121587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8790978062068063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5567009066334997
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8468581162494756
- Mean Citation Score: 413.032524
- Max Citation Score: 496.63565
- Similarity Product: 397.3940454960048

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