PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764589
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
A beverage dispenser ( 1 ) includes a cold water tank ( 20 ) for storing cold water ( 50 ), a carbonation tank ( 30 ) disposed with at least a bottom portion thereof being submerged in the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water thank ( 20 ), the carbonation tank being configured to generate carbonated water ( 60 ) by adding carbon dioxide gas to the cold water ( 50 ) supplied from the cold water tank ( 20 ), a carbonated water outlet passage ( 35 ) for taking out the carbonated water ( 60 ) from the carbonation tank ( 30 ) and a heater ( 41 ) for heating the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ). In order to sterilize the above beverage dispenser ( 1 ), the heater ( 41 ) is caused to heat the cold water ( 50 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ) to a temperature higher than a predetermined temperature, thereby to sterilize the cold water tank ( 20 ) and the carbonation tank ( 30 ). After the carbonated water ( 60 ) in the carbonation tank ( 30 ) is taken out via the carbonated water outlet passage ( 35 ), hot/warm water ( 70 ) in the cold water tank ( 20 ) is cooled.

Claim (Index 3):
The sterilizing method of  claim 2 , wherein:\n the carbonated water outlet passage is provided for dispensing the carbonated water as drinking water; the beverage dispenser further includes a cold water outlet passage for taking out the cold water from the cold water tank as drinking water and a bypass passage connected to the carbonated water outlet passage and the cold water outlet passage; and the carbonated water is supplied from the carbonation tank to the cold water tank via the carbonated water outlet passage and the cold water outlet passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.42857
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11326785', '11588034', '10007438', '11036169', '11091327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8556359644883504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929820656575427
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8193705746052696
- Mean Citation Score: 273.766648
- Max Citation Score: 281.14972
- Similarity Product: 220.4487067347145

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

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