PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["417", "441000"]

Abstract:
A pulsation dampening apparatus for providing a selectively variable orifice size fir a reciprocating compressor system includes a rotatable conical cage and a fixed conical cage, the conical cages being aligned along a central axis to firm a central cylindrical port. The conical cages each include at least one window or port and have mating contours allowing the conical cages to rotatably slide over one another, allowing their respective ports to be selectively aligned in any configuration to create any desired effective orifice size. In one embodiment, each of the conical cages include a plurality of ports which can be selectively aligned, the relative alignment of the ports determining the effective orifice size of the pulsation dampening apparatus.

Claim (Index 17):
The apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the Beta ratio at the maximum position is between 0.5 and 0.9 wherein the maximum position is achieved when the alignment of the inner and outer conical cages causes the inner and outer conical cage ports to be substantially in line and fully open such that the flow passes through the fully open conical cage ports as well as the central cylindrical port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81159
- Patent Class: 417.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14602515', '15051233', '14865265', '10816874', '14564716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.799610628949679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489279909392787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7745423651486391
- Mean Citation Score: 213.808574
- Max Citation Score: 396.5891
- Similarity Product: 384.8723441882312

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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