PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16402793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "096200"]

Abstract:
A diaphragm valve includes a valve body including a valve cavity and first and second ports, and a valve assembly disposed to seal the valve cavity. The valve assembly includes a valve seat, a seat carrier and a diaphragm, with the valve seat being retained with said seat carrier and disposed to surround the first port and including a flow passage in fluid communication with the first port. The seat carrier includes an annular body having an outer rim and a web that extends radially inward from the outer rim to a central opening, the central opening being aligned with the first port. The web includes a plurality of flow passages separated by lands about said central opening. Each land has a surface area that is less than a cross-sectional area of said second port so as to reduce obstruction of flow when the land overlays the second port.

Claim (Index 15):
A diaphragm valve, comprising:\n a valve body comprising a valve cavity, a first port and a second port, said first port and said second port being open to said valve cavity, a valve assembly disposed to seal said valve cavity, said valve assembly comprising a valve seat, a seat carrier and a diaphragm, said valve seat being retained with said seat carrier and disposed to surround said first port, said valve seat comprising a flow passage in fluid communication with said first port; wherein said seat carrier comprises an annular body having an outer rim and a web that extends radially inward from said outer rim to a central opening, said central opening being aligned with said first port, wherein said web comprises a plurality of flow passages separated by lands about said central opening; and wherein a bottom surface of the web is spaced apart from a bottom surface of the seat carrier by a gap, wherein a height of the gap times a width dimension of each land between adjacent pairs of flow passages is equal to or greater than a flow area of the second port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15455384', '14169298', '10109413', '11064501', '12664407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7779845878893009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924354441492789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7494296735152988
- Mean Citation Score: 204.562544
- Max Citation Score: 244.03229
- Similarity Product: 222.77897592108192

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

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