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 5):
The knob assembly according to  claim 4  wherein the slot is formed in a width corresponding to the outer diameter of the coupling shaft, and\n the stopper is formed to be protruded in a width narrower than that of the slot.

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): 0.7683327737509283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127455886793557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.742774055243771
- Mean Citation Score: 263.79776200000003
- Max Citation Score: 362.10934
- Similarity Product: 249.2860089319134

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