PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16437819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["428", "034400"]

Abstract:
Method for the manufacture of a hydrogen-permeable membrane having a thickness of not greater than 30 μm. The method includes plasma spraying at least one dense layer on a porous substrate such that during the plasma spraying, one sweep of a process beam deposits material particles over the substrate in a form of individual splats which do not produce a cohesive layer and said material particles include a proton-conducting ceramic material and an electron-conducting metallic component. The plasma spraying is LPPS-TF that utilizes a spraying distance of between 200 mm and 2000 mm, a sprayable powder starting material having a particle size range between 1 and 80 μm and containing the proton-conducting ceramic material and the electron-conducting metallic component and a process beam dispersing the sprayable powder starting material to a cloud.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for the manufacture of a hydrogen-permeable membrane, comprising:\n plasma spraying, via low pressure plasma spraying thin film (LPPS-TF) process, at least one dense layer on a porous substrate, said at least one layer comprising a proton-conducting ceramic material and an electron-conducting metallic component; and said plasma spraying forming the at least one layer by sweeping a process beam across the substrate with one sweep of the process beam forming individual splats which do not produce a cohesive layer, wherein the plasma spraying utilizes a sprayable starting material powder having a particle size of between 1 \u03bcm and 80 \u03bcm and that contains the proton-conducting ceramic material and the electron-conducting metallic component; wherein the plasma spraying utilizes a process beam dispersing the sprayable starting material powder to a cloud, wherein the proton-conducting ceramic material is an oxide of the perovskite type, wherein the electron-conducting metallic component in the at least one layer is arranged to form one of migration paths and trickle paths that increase electron conductivity of the at least one layer, wherein said membrane has a hydrogen flow rate greater than 10 milliliters per minute and square centimeter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77922
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13851428', '13421696', '13266727', '10717218', '10708475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8937559131414962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998647446036772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8543667962877143
- Mean Citation Score: 219.827734
- Max Citation Score: 275.02246
- Similarity Product: 212.5815593705976

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

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