PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["015", "001700"]

Abstract:
A swimming pool cleaner is driven along a submerged surface by water and debris flowing past a turbine positioned between an inlet and outlet of the cleaner. Retractable elements carried proximate the inlet form a plenum for water to enhance adherence of the pool cleaner to the submerged pool surface being cleaner. A drive train independently drives each of two wheels for maneuvering the pool cleaner in forward and reverse directions along the submerged surface. A hose connector operable with an outlet port is angled toward the forward direction of movement of the pool cleaner such that a suction hose will be placed slightly ahead of the pool cleaner when climbing a side wall surface to provide a weight for keeping the cleaner below the water surface and thus prevent an undesirable sucking of air at the inlet.

Claim (Index 1):
A pool cleaner comprising:\n a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, wherein suction applied to the outlet port results in suction at the inlet port for receiving water and debris therethrough; at least two wheels rotatably carried by the housing for rolling along a surface to be cleaned, wherein an outer diameter of the at least two wheels defines a perimeter thereof; a tubular member positioned on a bottom portion of the housing forward the inlet port, the tubular member defined by an inner surface; a first axle carried between opposing side wall portions of the housing, wherein the inner surface of the tubular member is slidably rotatable about the first axle, and wherein an outside dimension of the first axle is sufficiently smaller than a diameter of the inner surface for permitting the a portion of the tubular member to extend beyond the perimeter and for retracting the portion within the perimeter of the at least two wheels responsive to movement along the submerged surface; and a retractable element positioned at the bottom portion of the housing aft the inlet port and generally opposing the tubular member, the retractable element extending between the opposing side walls and moveable about a second axle, the retractable element moveable from outside the perimeter for contact with the surface to be cleaned to inside the perimeter for permitting the retractable element to slide along uneven portions of the surface to be cleaned, wherein the retractable element and the tubular member in combination with the opposing side wall portions of the housing form a plenum for water and enhancing adherence of the pool cleaner to the surface to be cleaned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79747
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14685861', '14017758', '14976404', '10296778', '12121587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8761692279951455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5724381414337457
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8457961193390056
- Mean Citation Score: 413.032524
- Max Citation Score: 496.63565
- Similarity Product: 479.4281286004424

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