PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011121
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["422", "176000"]

Abstract:
A decomposition reactor for an exhaust system includes an exterior component defining an internal volume and having an inlet and an outlet with the inlet and outlet are formed on a same side of the exterior component. A flow divider is positioned within the internal volume and defines a thermal management chamber and a main flow chamber. A first flow path of exhaust flows from the inlet into the main flow chamber to mix with dosed, and a second flow path of exhaust flows from the inlet into the thermal management chamber to control a temperature of a portion of the flow divider. In some implementations, one or more swirling diverters can be coupled to the flow divider and positioned proximate the outlet of the exterior component to impart a vortical motion to a combined reductant and exhaust gas flow exiting out the outlet.

Claim (Index 29):
A decomposition reactor for an exhaust system comprising:\n an exterior component defining an internal volume and having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the inlet and outlet are formed on a same side of the exterior component; a flow divider positioned within the internal volume defined by the exterior component and coupled to the exterior component, the flow divider defining a thermal management chamber and a main flow chamber within the internal volume, the main flow chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet, the thermal management chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and a downstream portion of the main flow chamber proximate the outlet, the flow divider comprising an opening configured to facilitate dosing of reductant into the main flow chamber; a mixer positioned within the main flow chamber; and one or more flow guide baffles positioned in the thermal management chamber between the flow divider and the exterior component; an inner exhaust assist bypass comprising an inner wall defining the main flow chamber and a bypass chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet; wherein the exterior component and the flow divider cooperatively define a first flow path from the inlet into the main flow chamber and out the outlet; and wherein the exterior component and the flow divider cooperatively define a second flow path from the inlet into the thermal management chamber and out through one or more openings formed in the flow divider into the main flow chamber; wherein the inner wall and the exterior component cooperatively define a third flow path from the inlet into the bypass chamber and out the outlet; and wherein the third flow path is shorter than the first flow path or the second flow path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 116.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14561832', '12910700', '14199089', '14734911', '14512097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7782555605278852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999691545954797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7504269199346447
- Mean Citation Score: 257.947038
- Max Citation Score: 286.59213
- Similarity Product: 221.2554319363475

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