PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["422", "105000"]

Abstract:
A sterilization process transition method of switching from an SIP process to a product sterilization process in an apparatus including piping that feeds a product into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part. The process sterilizes the piping before a filling operation, and the product sterilization process sterilizes the product to be filled. An F value is calculated from temperature and flowrate data on a fluid flowing in the heating sterilization part that are obtained from temperature sensors and flowmeters disposed in the product filling apparatus at predetermined time intervals. The temperature and flowrate at two or more predetermined positions in the product filling apparatus are adjusted from a set temperature and a set flowrate for the SIP process to a set temperature and a set flowrate for the product sterilization process while preventing the F value from becoming lower than a predetermined value.

Claim (Index 11):
A product filling apparatus that comprises product supply piping that feeds a product into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part and performs a CIP process of removing a remaining foreign matter from a product or the like on an interior of the product supply piping and an SIP process of sterilizing the interior of the product supply piping, wherein the CIP process and the SIP process are performed at the same time or in sequence without an interruption between the CIP process and the SIP process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23881
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14352138', '14895622', '15511691', '14646552', '14650737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8386031010782315
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153007146615282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8062728624365613
- Mean Citation Score: 317.71058
- Max Citation Score: 348.3914
- Similarity Product: 258.9080226723909

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