PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["137", "068150"]

Abstract:
A breakaway coupling includes a body and a valve assembly inside the body. The body includes a fluid conduit and a shear groove between first and second portions. The shear groove is designed to crack, break, or separate under certain conditions. The valve assembly is designed to shut off fluid flow through the fluid conduit when the shear groove cracks, breaks, or separates. The valve assembly includes a valve seat, a sealing element, one or more pins, and a biasing member. The one or more pins hold the sealing element in an open position while the shear groove is in tack, and allow the sealing element to move to a closed position (with the help of the biasing member) in the event the shear groove cracks, breaks, or separates.

Claim (Index 1):
A breakaway coupling kit, comprising:\n a breakaway coupling, comprising:\n a body having a first portion, a second portion, and a shear groove between the first and second portions, the first portion and the second portion each having opposing flat exterior surfaces along at least a portion of a length thereof, and the shear groove being configured to crack, break, or separate between the first and second portions upon the application of a force above a predetermined threshold; and \n a valve assembly disposed at least partially within the body and being configured to shut off fluid flow through the body when the shear groove cracks, breaks, or separates; and \n an installation tool comprising opposing legs connected together by a side wall, the opposing legs defining an open side of the installation tool opposite the side wall to enable insertion of the breakaway coupling into the installation tool, the opposing legs having interior surfaces that are spaced apart to correspond to a distance between the opposing flat exterior surfaces of the first and second portions of the body, the installation tool having a length sufficient to simultaneously engage the first and second portions of the body and span the shear groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29688
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15139126', '11888116', '11445417', '11503562', '13303604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8216324014019443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953254102097187
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7890017022827218
- Mean Citation Score: 187.426654
- Max Citation Score: 318.94666
- Similarity Product: 300.92930484872346

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

Dataset: test