PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113893
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["244", "054000"]

Abstract:
An exhaust arrangement is for an aircraft having sensing equipment and a front prop engine. An extension mounts on the underside along an edge of the fuselage to direct exhaust from the engine's exhaust pipes to a point to or past the sensing equipment typically exposed at the mid-section of the aircraft. An extension inlet mounts adjacent the pipe and defines a funnel or conical orifice not directly affixed to the pipe. One or more conductors for the extension then extend from the inlet to convey the exhaust to an outlet of the extension. Preferably, multiple conductors can be used with an expansion joint provided between them. The outlet preferably diverts exhaust away from the tail end of the aircraft. To mount the extension to the aircraft, several arrangements of supports including rods, lugs, angles, and the like hold the extension in vertical, lateral, and axial directions to the aircraft.

Claim (Index 1):
An exhaust apparatus for an aircraft, the aircraft having a fuselage, an engine exhaust with an outlet area disposed at a nose of the aircraft, and a sensor disposed at a location of the fuselage, the apparatus comprising:\n an inlet having a mouth communicating with the engine exhaust, the mouth defining an intake area larger than the outlet area of the exhaust; at least one tubular having first and second ends and mountable at a plurality of support locations to the fuselage, the first end connected in communication to the inlet, the first end receiving exhaust output from the engine exhaust along with intake air from the mouth, the second end extending beyond the location of the sensor; and first and second supports disposed at first and second of the support locations on the at least one tubular, each of the first and second supports having first, second, and third arms, each of the first arms pivotally connected between the fuselage and the at least one tubular and supporting the same in a first direction, each of the second arms pivotally connected between the fuselage and the at least one tubular and supporting the same in a second direction different from the first direction, one of the third arms for the first support pivotally connected between the fuselage and the at least one tubular and supporting the same in a third direction different from the first and second directions, another of the third arms for the second support pivotally connected between the fuselage and the at least one tubular and supporting the same in a fourth direction opposing the third direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 244.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14826957', '10379633', '14987295', '15364550', '15756365']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8080141332910934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5696737501828143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7841800949802655
- Mean Citation Score: 222.568458
- Max Citation Score: 451.8675
- Similarity Product: 443.2076571786404

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