PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["422", "186300"]

Abstract:
A sterilization apparatus is provided with: a light source, which has a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits ultraviolet light; a housing, which forms a flow passage through which a fluid subject to sterilization passes; a light receiving unit, which receives a portion of the ultraviolet light emitted from the light source and detects the amount of ultraviolet light that has been received; and a control unit, which controls the output of the semiconductor light-emitting element based on information regarding the amount of ultraviolet light acquired from the light receiving unit. The housing has an incidence portion on which ultraviolet light becomes incident and a reflection portion, which reflects the ultraviolet light at the inner surface thereof. The light receiving unit is provided at a position where the light receiving unit can receive the portion of ultraviolet light that has been transmitted through the reflection portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid sterilization apparatus comprising:\n a light source that has a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits ultraviolet light; a housing that forms a flow passage through which a fluid subject to sterilization passes; a light receiving unit that receives a portion of the ultraviolet light emitted from the light source and detects the amount of ultraviolet light that has been received; and a control unit that controls the output of the semiconductor light-emitting element based on information regarding the amount of ultraviolet light acquired from the light receiving unit, wherein the housing has an incidence portion on which ultraviolet light becomes incident and a reflection portion that reflects the ultraviolet light at the inner surface thereof, wherein the reflection portion is formed of a material that transmits a portion of ultraviolet light, and wherein the light receiving unit is provided at a position where the light receiving unit can receive the portion of ultraviolet light that has been transmitted through the reflection portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34328
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11781812', '13006143', '09987049', '13029067', '15292236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7727346493342453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4599204183854279
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7414532262393636
- Mean Citation Score: 147.154512
- Max Citation Score: 151.864
- Similarity Product: 109.01584842920305

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

Dataset: test