PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044855
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["169", "017000"]

Abstract:
A flexible dry sprinkler includes an inlet, an inlet seal assembly, and an inlet release unit. A flexible tube has an inlet end and an outlet end, and a flexible linkage extends through the flexible tube, and is connected to the inlet release unit. An outlet release unit is connected to the outlet end of the flexible tube and to an outlet end of the flexible linkage, and displaces the outlet end of the flexible linkage upon activation of the flexible dry fire protection sprinkler. A sprinkler body is connected to the outlet release unit, and has an outlet orifice sealed by an outlet seal assembly until ambient temperature reaches a predetermined temperature. When the ambient temperature reaches the predetermined temperature, displacement of the flexible linkage in an outlet direction causes release of the inlet seal assembly.

Claim (Index 15):
The flexible dry fire protection sprinkler system according to  claim 12 , wherein the outlet seal assembly of each of the one or more flexible dry fire protection sprinklers includes:\n (i) an outlet seal configured to seal the outlet orifice; and (ii) a thermally responsive element configured to hold the outlet seal in the outlet orifice prior to failing, and configured to fail at the predetermined temperature, wherein, when the thermally responsive element of the one or more flexible dry fire protection sprinklers fails, the outlet seal is released from the outlet orifice, thereby activating the one or more flexible dry fire protection sprinklers, and allowing a fluid from the fluid supply to be discharged through the outlet orifice.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17021
- Patent Class: 169.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16044837', '14534881', '15995297', '15155500', '13757448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7516048158020806
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5691144092842145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.733355775150294
- Mean Citation Score: 368.606428
- Max Citation Score: 448.59155
- Similarity Product: 352.77317935285566

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

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