PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["251", "086000"]

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 9):
An universal joint according to  claim 2 , wherein the slot comprises a pair of first slots which are formed to be protruded to a side of the housing, respectively, are arranged to face each other viewed from longitudinal one side or other side of the housing, and which the pair of coupling shafts provided in the first shaft supporting portion is rotatably inserted, respectively; and\n a pair of second slots which are formed to be protruded to the side of the housing, respectively, arranged to face each other in a different position from the first slot viewed from longitudinal one side or other side of the housing, and which the pair of coupling shafts provided in the second shaft supporting portion is rotatably inserted, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900389', '15900251', '14859537', '14706035', '15064937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7684730374211239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5129495084447914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7429206845234907
- Mean Citation Score: 263.79776200000003
- Max Citation Score: 362.10934
- Similarity Product: 239.58396910237545

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