PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129832
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["702", "050000"]

Abstract:
A 3D time series vector sediment trap includes a base disposed with trap pipes which includes water flow pipes and sedimentation pipes. The water flow pipes have a horizontal water inlet at the front end, a vertical downward water outlet at the back end and the water flow pipe is internally provided with a filter screen which tilts towards the water inlet. The filter screen is internally tangential to the water flow pipe, and the sedimentation pipes are vertically fixed underneath the water flow pipes. The top end of the sedimentation pipes have an opening and bottom end thereof is closed. The opening is connected to the water flow pipe and directly faces the filter screen so that materials with a diameter greater than the screen pore diameter are intercepted by the filter screen in the water flow pipe and collected in the sedimentation pipe.

Claim (Index 10):
A vector method for calculating sediments at any moment, wherein the sediments are collected by the 3D time series vector sediment trap of  claim 1  at a seafloor, comprising:\n step a) calculating a sediment content in a water flow pipe from data measured by a turbidity meter and a current meter; \n wherein, assuming that a cross section of a water inlet of a trap pipe is S and a sedimentation pipe is S\u2032, and \n assuming that a current velocity is V (d,D,t)  and a turbidity is Tur (d,D,t) , then a total amount of the sediments flowing through the water flow pipe at every moment is expressed by the following formula:\n Q (d,D,i) =V (d,D,t) \u00d7S\u00d7Tur (d,D,t)  \u2003\u2003(1) \n \n wherein, d refers a direction, D refers a depth and i refers any moment in a period of time from 0 to t: \n step b) obtaining a total amount of the sediments in the sedimentation pipe according to an amount of the sediments obtained in step a), wherein assuming that all sediments Q (d,D,i)  flowing through the waterflow pipe at any moment flow into the sedimentation pipe, a corresponding part of the sediments in the sedimentation pipe is from H i\u22121  to H i , the total amount of the sediments in the sedimentation pipe is expressed by the following formulas: \n H i = 1 S \u2032 \ue89e \u2211 j = 0 i \ue89e \ue89e Q ( d , D , j ) ( 2 ) H i - 1 = 1 S \u2032 \ue89e \u2211 j = 0 i - 1 \ue89e \ue89e Q ( d , D , j ) ( 3 ) step c) obtaining a sediment sample of any depth and at any moment in the sedimentation pipe in any direction according to a change of a sediment height in the sedimentation pipe measured by an altimeter using formula (1) in step a) as well as formula (2) and formula (3) in step b) for a physical and chemical analysis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26866
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13135581', '11931199', '14781620', '16084224', '12576359']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1692596602644878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805181929766859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2003855135357076
- Mean Citation Score: 178.54057600000004
- Max Citation Score: 182.51984
- Similarity Product: 135.84640693668365

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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