PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932414
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["210", "335000"]

Abstract:
The present invention teaches a method and apparatus to quickly and inexpensively implement advanced, bypass grade, fine, or additional filtration to engines and hydraulic systems. The present invention has the ability to make quick hydraulic connection to the engine or hydraulic system, where oil is super cleaned, without major modifications as is the paradigm by traditional bypass filtration systems and without removing any lubricant from the engine or system that the present invention is connected to, as is the paradigm of traditional bypass filtering systems. When connected to the normally provided stud for the spin-on oil filter in an engine or hydraulic system, the net effect of interest to the present invention is that by simply placing the adapter at the point of connection of the spin-on oil filter, many of the necessary plumbing associated with the traditional bypass filter installation is obviated, as is the energy and labor intensive process of seeking for a pressure point and a return of the oil. The present invention relies on the differential pressure effected by either alone or in combination of an orifice restriction to effect flow of either engine oil or hydraulic fluid, to route through a high efficiency filter, in trapping and low pressure to flow, an amount of dirty oil and then to return same amount to reconstitute a total flow on the system, whereby supplemental or advanced filtration is quickly connected to an engine or hydraulic system.

Claim (Index 1):
An adapter assembly for use in implementing serial advanced filtration in a fluid filtration system, comprising:\n an adapter body configured to be interposed between a support mount of a fluid gallery and a first filter, the adapter body having an inner bore, the adapter body defining a first flow passage configured to direct a primary flow PF of a total fluid flow TF to a first outlet of the adapter body, a second flow passage configured to direct a secondary flow SF of the total fluid flow TF to a second outlet of the adapter body configured to be fluidly connected with an inlet of a second filter, and a third flow passage that extends between an inlet opening on an outer surface of the adapter body and fluidly connected with said first outlet of the adapter body that channels said secondary flow SF of the total fluid flow TF from an outlet of said second filter, and an adapter nipple configured to extend through the inner bore of the adapter body to affix the adapter body to said support mount and having a nipple central flow channel, wherein during use the adapter nipple is configured to couple to the support mount and to fluidly communicate with the clean fluid side of the first filter to provide a return of the primary flow PF, and wherein the secondary flow SF is returned from the second filter outlet via said third flow passage to reconstitute said total fluid flow TF through the nipple flow passage, whereby during use a fraction or ratio SF/TF is continuously super cleaned, and the secondary flow is made to be filtered first by the second filter then by the first filter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37037
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14610918', '12925921', '14756770', '13815615', '14746569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7873154187428992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033047743762834
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7589143543062377
- Mean Citation Score: 227.397304
- Max Citation Score: 313.39017
- Similarity Product: 295.2396452779144

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

Dataset: test