PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["137", "826000"]

Abstract:
A fluidic device for providing analogue output control includes a main channel, a first control channel, a second control channel, a comparator which receives respective input fluid flows from the main, the first and the second control channels. The first control channel is configured such that the input fluid flow therefrom carries an oscillating pressure wave signal, the second control channel includes a flow regulator controllable to vary the mass flow rate of the input fluid flow from the second control channel, and the main channel is configured such that the input fluid flow therefrom is at a reference mass flow rate. The comparator is configured such that the input fluid flows from the first control and the second control channels act in combination on the input fluid flow from the main channel to produce an output fluid flow from the comparator having a PWM mass flow rate characteristic.

Claim (Index 9):
A fluidic device according to  claim 1 , further including a vortex amplifier having a source for receiving a flow of a primary fluid into the vortex amplifier, a sink through which the primary fluid leaves the vortex amplifier, and a control port for introducing a control fluid flow into the vortex amplifier, wherein the vortex amplifier is configured such that a relatively high mass flow rate of the control fluid forms a vortex from the primary fluid between the source and the sink to set a flow of the primary fluid from the sink to a relatively low level, and a relatively low or zero mass flow rate of the control fluid reduces or eliminates the vortex to set the flow of the primary fluid from the sink to a relatively high level;\n wherein the first output fluid flow from the comparator forms the control fluid flow into the vortex amplifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77193
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11201914', '15146484', '13786608', '10537273', '13806060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8413505239212146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712802793558322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8043434994646763
- Mean Citation Score: 186.000986
- Max Citation Score: 196.06784
- Similarity Product: 141.39877167205807

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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