PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["251", "164000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a trim arrangement for a ball valve. The trim arrangement includes a first seat assembly having a first seat, a threaded collar, and a biasing element. The first seat is in contact with a first side of a ball element, and the threaded collar is threadably coupled to the first seat and in engagement with the biasing element. The trim arrangement further includes a second seat assembly having a second seat in contact with a second side of the ball element. The biasing element biases the first seat toward the first side of the ball element to provide a contact stress between the first seat and the first side of the ball element and the second seat and the second side of the ball element. The contact stress provided by the biasing element is adjustable by rotating the first seat.

Claim (Index 9):
A ball valve comprising:\n a valve body including an interior cavity, the interior cavity including a collar bore; a ball element positioned in the interior cavity; and a trim arrangement in the interior cavity and including:\n a first seat in contact with a first side of the ball element; \n a second seat in contact with a second side of the ball element; \n a threaded collar received in the collar bore and threadably coupled to the first seat, the threaded collar being inhibited from rotating in the collar bore and being allowed to translate along the collar bore; and \n a biasing element engaged between a biasing surface of the collar bore and the threaded collar to provide a contact stress between the first seat and the first side of the ball element and the second seat and the second side of the ball element, the contact stress provided by the biasing element being adjustable by translating the threaded collar along the collar bore via rotating the first seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.5814
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12767582', '15242084', '14702383', '12771950', '13006237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7438747001780163
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4699701373060537
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.71648424389082
- Mean Citation Score: 232.540764
- Max Citation Score: 242.18948
- Similarity Product: 188.8858020248056

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

Dataset: test