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 2):
The knob assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein the joint housing is formed in a cylindrical form and has a plurality of slots provided in longitudinal direction of the cylinder,\n the first shaft coupling portion has a pair of first coupling shafts which is rotatably coupled to a pair of slots, the second shaft coupling portion has one pair of second coupling shaft which is rotatably coupled to the other pair of slots, wherein the first shaft coupling portion and the second shaft coupling portion are movable respectively with regard to the longitudinal direction of the cylinder of the housing, wherein the first shaft coupling portion and the second shaft coupling portion are rotatable independently with regard to the housing.

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): 0.7677699157141205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119281263286928
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7421857367755776
- Mean Citation Score: 263.79776200000003
- Max Citation Score: 362.10934
- Similarity Product: 288.17838667132617

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