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 11):
A breakaway coupling, comprising:\n a body having:\n a first portion, a second portion, and a shear groove between the first and second portions, the shear groove being configured to crack, break, or separate between the first and second portions upon the occurrence of an impact above a predetermined threshold; and \n a fluid conduit extending through the first portion, the second portion, and the shear groove; and \n a valve assembly disposed at least partially within the body and being configured to shut off fluid flow through the fluid conduit when the shear groove cracks, breaks, or separates, the valve assembly comprising:\n a sealing element that is movable between an open position and a closed position relative, the open position allowing fluid to flow through the fluid conduit, the closed position preventing fluid from flowing through the fluid conduit; \n a bridge pin fixedly associated with a bridge in the second portion of the body, the bridge pin extending towards the first portion to maintain the sealing element in the open position absent the occurrence of an impact above the predetermined threshold that would cause the shear groove to crack, break, or separate between the first and second portions.

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): 0.821669499368306
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4945868062109613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7889612300525716
- Mean Citation Score: 187.426654
- Max Citation Score: 318.94666
- Similarity Product: 306.6546820391679

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

Dataset: test