PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16399246
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["261", "114400"]

Abstract:
A vapor-liquid contact tray apparatus includes a tray having a plurality of apertures for passage of fluid through the tray. The apertures are arranged in a first group of three adjacent rows extending substantially parallel to a main liquid flow path of the tray. Apertures of the middle row are offset along the main liquid flow path on the tray from adjacent apertures of the other two rows to form a triangular pattern of adjacent apertures across the three adjacent rows. The apertures have a length and a width, each length is oriented substantially parallel to its row and each width is oriented substantially perpendicular to its row. Centers of adjacent apertures within each row are separated by a first spacing which is equal to or between 2.5 and 4.5 times the average length of the apertures in that row. Adjacent rows are separated by a second spacing which is equal to or between 1.5 and 2.5 times the average width of the apertures of the adjacent rows.

Claim (Index 18):
A vapor-liquid contact tray apparatus for use in a separation column, said apparatus comprising a tray and a tray support, wherein:\n said tray support comprises one or more elements selected from the group consisting of: a ring, a partial ring, a bracket, or a flange underlying and supporting a circumferential region of the tray; a cross beam underlying and supporting a chordal region of the tray; and a tray panel forming a cross beam supporting a portion of an adjacent tray panel or panels of the tray; a plurality of support-area-aeration apertures are formed in the tray laterally adjacent to the tray support; one or more of the plurality of support-area-aeration apertures are at least partially covered by a cover, said cover positioned to interact with vapor passing through the support-area-aeration aperture such that greater than 50% of vapor passing through the support-area-aeration aperture is directed laterally across the tray and over an underlying tray support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36486
- Patent Class: 261.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10544744', '14927890', '16003447', '11142957', '11488531']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6658831356227409
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833881201341862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6476336340738854
- Mean Citation Score: 193.966146
- Max Citation Score: 202.77423
- Similarity Product: 147.33435174906668

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

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