PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875085
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["251", "315030"]

Abstract:
A ball installed in a ball valve is provided. The ball includes: a ball main body including a penetrating hole penetrating from a front portion to a rear portion thereof and having a predetermined diameter, and a concave recess formed on an upper portion thereof to be coupled to a stem of the ball valve; and insert members coupled to a left side and a right side of the ball main body, wherein the insert members are coupled to the ball main body, such that, when the ball is installed in the ball valve and is placed in a position for closing the ball valve, each of the insert members covers a region of the ball contacting a seat of the ball valve, wherein the insert members are formed of a super hardness material.

Claim (Index 1):
A ball installed in a ball valve, the ball comprising:\n a ball main body comprising a penetrating hole penetrating from a front portion to a rear portion thereof and having a predetermined diameter, and a concave recess formed on an upper portion thereof to be coupled to a stem of the ball valve; and insert members formed of a super hardness material and coupled to a left side and a right side of the ball main body, wherein the insert members are coupled to the ball main body, such that, when the ball is installed in the ball valve and is placed in a position for closing the ball valve, each of the insert members covers a region of the ball contacting a seat of the ball valve, wherein the insert members are formed of sintered tungsten carbide having a Rockwell hardness (HRa) ranging from 81 to 93, and wherein the each insert members is coupled to the ball main body by using at least one of welding or adhesive.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14378722', '15163699', '13580788', '15330546', '11109620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7219387824137165
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4422333956062184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6939682437329667
- Mean Citation Score: 158.349196
- Max Citation Score: 162.18901
- Similarity Product: 128.73152141147494

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

Dataset: test