PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15755199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["137", "098000"]

Abstract:
To provide a flow dividing system that has an improved degree of freedom in arrangement, is suitable for integration, and achieves reductions in the manufacturing costs and maintenance costs. A flow dividing system for controlling, upon dividing a single flow rate into multiple flow rates, the respective flow rates such that the ratio between the divided flow rates matches a preset flow rate ratio. The flow dividing system has: a manifold  500  for dividing the single flow rate into the multiple flow rates; and multiple fluid control devices  1 M,  1 S that are formed as separate bodies from the manifold  500 , are disposed separately from and independently of each other, and respectively control the multiple flow rates. A master device  1 M has communication unit  102 M for transmitting a preset flow rate value based on the preset flow rate ratio to a slave device  1 S and for receiving a flow rate detection value DQ 2  from the slave device  1 S, and the slave device  1 S has a communication unit  102 S for receiving the preset flow rate value from the master device  1 M and for transmitting the flow rate detection value DQ 2  to the master device  1 M.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for manufacturing a fluid control system that integrates a plurality of types of fluid control devices, the plurality of types of fluid control devices including, in part, the master device and the slave device of the flow dividing system described in any one of  claims 4  to  7 , the method comprising the steps of:\n positioning a plurality of block-shaped joint members on a common base plate; \n fixing each of the block-shaped joint members to the common base plate by fastening members; \n positioning a seal member around an opening formed on a top surface of each of the joint members; \n positioning respective bottom surfaces of the plurality of types of fluid control devices on the respective top surfaces of the block-shaped joint members; and \n fixing respective base portions of the plurality of types of fluid control devices to the respective block-shaped joint members by fastening members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7037
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11279786', '11651908', '14595263', '10909351', '11791496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8149503927166398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821886328327625
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816742167282521
- Mean Citation Score: 152.93573600000005
- Max Citation Score: 177.37804
- Similarity Product: 106.59446666213512

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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