PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758772
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["137", "625460"]

Abstract:
A valve apparatus includes a valve main body, a shaft body, a first valve element, and a second valve element. The valve main body has a first depressed portion and a second depressed portion in a circular shape, and a first port, a second port, and a third port each communicating with the first depressed portion, and a fourth port and a fifth port each communicating with the second depressed portion. The first port is allowed to selectively communicate with one of the second port and the third port by closure of one of the second port and the third port by the first valve element rotating about an axial direction. A flow amount of a fluid flowing between the fourth port and the fifth port is allowed to be variable by closure of the fourth port by the second valve element rotating about the axial direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A valve apparatus comprising:\n a valve main body having\n a first depressed portion in a circular shape and a second depressed portion in a circular shape separated from the first depressed portion, and \n a first port, a second port, and a third port each communicating with the first depressed portion, and a fourth port and a fifth port each communicating with the second depressed portion; \n a shaft body placed in the valve main body and rotatable about an axial direction; a first valve element placed in the first depressed portion, connected to the shaft body, and having a circular plate shape; and a second valve element placed in the second depressed portion, connected to the shaft body to be located beside the first valve element along the axial direction, and having a circular plate shape, the first port being allowed to selectively communicate with one of the second port and the third port by closure of one of the second port and the third port by the first valve element rotating about the axial direction, and a flow amount of a fluid flowing between the fourth port and the fifth port being allowed to be variable by closure of the fourth port by the second valve element rotating about the axial direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13631174', '15501104', '12957837', '13497431', '12402134']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8279540733392907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4641633418875552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7915750001941172
- Mean Citation Score: 182.774674
- Max Citation Score: 202.08562
- Similarity Product: 155.5749913651085

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

Dataset: test