PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771967
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["114", "125000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically managing the ballast water of a dual-hulled ship and, more specifically, to an apparatus for automatically managing the ballast water of a ship, the apparatus dividing the structure of an integrated ballast water tank into ballast water tanks of a multi-layered structure, and filling each ballast water tank with seawater, so as to perform the original function thereof of maintaining the water-line by means of the ballast water, and having a structure and a device so as to utilize the seawater, used as cooling water, residential water, water for miscellaneous use, and the like, as the seawater of the ballast water tanks, thereby integrally managing the usage of the seawater of the ship, and continuously and successively changing the seawater of the ballast water tanks while the ship is sailing.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for automatically managing the ballast water of a dual-hulled ship to integrally manage seawater used in the ship, comprising:\n ballast water tanks of a multi-layered structure; water level sensors for the ballast water tanks; bypass valves supplying seawater to adjacent ballast tanks; piping connecting a bottom ballast tank a desalination unit for cooling water and residential water etc., and to a pipe for supplying technical water such as cooling water for mechanical units; and a control unit, which is an electronic controller, controlling to open the bypass valves so that the seawater may be supplied to adjacent ballast tanks, when the bottom ballast tank becomes empty.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11357709', '10583703', '10572211', '12448112', '14429921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7304953991656367
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033690969902759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7077827689481007
- Mean Citation Score: 242.547314
- Max Citation Score: 272.0712
- Similarity Product: 224.4302115686416

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

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