PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044837
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["169", "017000"]

Abstract:
A flexible dry sprinkler includes an inlet, an inlet seal assembly having a spring seal that compresses in response to a longitudinal load, and an inlet release unit. A flexible tube has an inlet end and an outlet end, and a flexible linkage extends through the flexible tube, and is connected to the inlet release unit. An outlet release unit is connected to the outlet end of the flexible tube and to an outlet end of the flexible linkage, and displaces the outlet end of the flexible linkage upon activation of the flexible dry fire protection sprinkler. A sprinkler body is connected to the outlet release unit, and has an outlet orifice sealed by an outlet seal assembly until ambient temperature reaches a predetermined temperature. When the ambient temperature reaches the predetermined temperature, translation of the flexible linkage in an outlet direction causes release of the inlet seal assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
A flexible dry fire protection sprinkler comprising:\n (A) an inlet having an inlet orifice; (B) an inlet seal assembly configured to seal the inlet orifice, and having a spring seal that compresses in response to a longitudinal load; (C) an inlet release unit configured to release the inlet seal assembly; (D) a flexible tube having an inlet end connected to the inlet release unit, and an outlet end; (E) a flexible linkage extending through the flexible tube, and having an inlet end connected to the inlet release unit, and an outlet end; (F) an outlet release unit connected to the outlet end of the flexible tube and to the outlet end of the flexible linkage, and configured to displace the outlet end of the flexible linkage upon activation of the flexible dry fire protection sprinkler; (G) a sprinkler body connected to the outlet release unit, the sprinkler body having an outlet orifice; and (H) an outlet seal assembly configured to seal the outlet orifice of the sprinkler body until ambient temperature reaches a predetermined temperature, wherein, when the ambient temperature reaches the predetermined temperature, the outlet seal assembly is released from the outlet orifice of the sprinkler body, and the outlet release unit displaces the flexible linkage in an outlet direction from a first position to a second position, causing the inlet end of the flexible linkage to operate the inlet release unit, thereby releasing the inlet seal assembly from the inlet orifice of the inlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98148
- Patent Class: 169.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15995297', '14534881', '16044855', '13757448', '15155500']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7287999270832807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.583367780928909
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7142567124678436
- Mean Citation Score: 381.519328
- Max Citation Score: 467.0714
- Similarity Product: 435.5937207783341

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