PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "288000"]

Abstract:
An on-demand vapour generator includes a vapour chamber configured to produce a vapour and a vapour absorption assembly configured to receive flows of vapour from the vapour chamber. The vapour absorption assembly includes a first vapour-permeable passage having a passage outlet and at least one second vapour-permeable passage that is closed. When vapour absorption assembly receives a flow of vapour from the vapour chamber, the flow of vapour passes through the first vapour-permeable passage to the passage outlet at least substantially without absorption of vapour from the flow of vapour. However, when a flow of vapour is not received from the vapour chamber, vapour entering the vapour absorption assembly from the vapour chamber passes into the first vapour-permeable passage and the at least one second vapour-permeable passage and is at least substantially absorbed.

Claim (Index 29):
A vapour generator comprising:\n a vapour chamber configured to produce a vapour; and a vapour absorption assembly including a first vapour-permeable passage having a passage outlet, at least one second vapour-permeable passage, and a passage inlet configured to receive flows of vapour from the vapour chamber, the first vapour-permeable passage having a first end in fluid communication with the passage inlet and a second end in fluid communication with the passage outlet, the vapour absorption assembly configured to receive flows of vapour from the vapour chamber via the passage inlet, the at least one second vapour-permeable passage fluidly coupled with the first vapour-permeable passage, wherein when a flow of vapour driven from the vapour chamber is received, the flow of vapour passes from the passage inlet through the first vapour-permeable passage to the passage outlet at least substantially without absorption of vapour from the flow of vapour and without being substantially diverted to the at least one second vapour-permeable passage, and when a driven flow of vapour is not received from the vapour chamber, vapour entering the vapour absorption assembly from the vapour chamber passes into the first vapour-permeable passage and into the at least one second vapour-permeable passage, the at least one second vapour-permeable passage configured to take up the vapour so that when a driven flow of vapour is received, the first vapour permeable passage and the at least one second vapour-permeable passage arranged so that, in response to a pressure difference between the outlet and the vapour source, resistance to driving vapour flow through the first vapour permeable passage to the outlet is less than the resistance to driving vapour flow into the at least one second vapour-permeable passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97872
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15609343', '14430252', '15310028', '12083151', '13424192']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7346683698146407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5540901523951461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7166105480726912
- Mean Citation Score: 306.862128
- Max Citation Score: 425.80792
- Similarity Product: 401.8578082201004

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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