PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["290", "053000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a turbine with a turbine body, a support frame, and a generator. The turbine body has a plurality of turbine blades, a shaft defining a rotational axis, and a bottom apex. Each of the turbine blades has a lower edge, and the lower edges taper upward relative to the bottom apex such that the lower edges trace a convex surface as the turbine body rotates about the rotational axis. The support frame is connected to the shaft by an angularly adjustable connection that adjusts the angle of the shaft relative to the support frame. The angularly adjustable connection permits rotation of the shaft about the rotational axis, and the generator is powered by the rotation of the shaft.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of generating electrical energy from a fluid flow travelling in a flow direction, the method comprising the steps of:\n installing a turbine adjacent to the fluid flow, the turbine comprising:\n a turbine body that extends at least partially into the fluid flow, the turbine body comprising a plurality of turbine blades, the turbine body having a shaft defining a rotational axis, and a bottom apex, the rotational axis being perpendicular to the flow direction of the fluid flow, each of the turbine blades having a lower edge, the lower edges being contained by a cone-shape that slopes upward relative to the bottom apex such that the lower edges trace a convex surface as the turbine body rotates about the rotational axis in response to the fluid flow, the turbine body being divided by a plane defined by the rotational axis of the shaft and a first axis that is parallel to the flow direction of the fluid flow to define a first side and a second side of the turbine body; \n a support frame connected to the shaft by an angularly adjustable connection that adjusts the angle of the shaft relative to the support frame, the angularly adjustable connection adjusting the angle of the shaft between a first position where the shaft is vertically oriented and a second position where the shaft is angled from the vertical orientation, the angularly adjustable connection permitting rotation of the shaft about the rotational axis of the shaft; and \n a generator powered by the rotation of the shaft; \n activating an actuator to adjust the angle of the shaft between the first position and the second position to adjust the relative volume of fluid flow that passes along the first side of the turbine body relative to the second side of the turbine body; and collecting electrical energy from the generator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12993652', '13140630', '14895217', '15726701', '15119061']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5990218215589043
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610417298417433
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5852238123871882
- Mean Citation Score: 172.23789200000004
- Max Citation Score: 175.07355
- Similarity Product: 143.8416739579439

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test