PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940166
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["366", "165100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating a swirl is disclosed that is used to induce an axi-symmetric swirling flow to an incoming flow. The disclosed subject matter induces a uniform and axi-symmetric swirl, circumferentially around a discharge location, thus imparting a more accurate, repeatable, continuous, and controllable swirl and mixing condition of interest. Moreover, the disclosed subject matter performs the swirl injection at a lower pressure drop in comparison to a more traditional methods and devices.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of creating an axially-symmetric swirling flow, comprising:\n passing a main flow lacking axially-symmetric swirling flow through a chamber having an upstream nozzle and a downstream nozzle; injecting a second flow into a plenum; passing the second flow from the plenum to a slot connecting at a first end with the plenum and connecting radially tangentially at a second end with the chamber; discharging the second flow through the slot and into the main flow, wherein the step of discharging the second flow into the main flow mixes the second flow with the main flow to impart a predefined swirling component to the main flow to generate an axially-symmetric uniform flow field.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57407
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14534263', '10422265', '15577934', '15382112', '14645959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8031734687187594
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5650792919494172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7793640510418252
- Mean Citation Score: 260.192288
- Max Citation Score: 475.47507
- Similarity Product: 461.8072861430777

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

Dataset: test