PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["423", "245300"]

Abstract:
Fuel tank inerting systems and methods for an aircraft. The systems include a fuel tank, a first reactant source fluidly connected to the fuel tank, the first source arranged to receive fuel from the fuel tank, a second reactant source, a catalytic reactor arranged to receive a first reactant from the first source and a second reactant from the second source to generate an inert gas that is supplied to the fuel tank to fill a ullage space of the fuel tank, and a heating duct thermally connected to the catalytic reactor and arranged in thermal communication with the first source to provide heat to the first source to generate the first reactant.

Claim (Index 11):
Method of supplying inert gas to a fuel tank of an aircraft, the method comprising:\n supplying fuel from a fuel tank to a first reactant source; generating a first reactant within the first reactant source; mixing the first reactant with a second reactant supplied from a second reactant source; catalyzing the mixed first reactant and second reactant within a catalytic reactor to generate an inert gas; supplying the inert gas to the fuel tank to fill a ullage space of the fuel tank; and heating the first reactant source with a heating duct thermally connected to the catalytic reactor and arranged in thermal communication with the first source to provide heat to the first source to generate the first reactant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55319
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15883244', '15849151', '15849274', '11560290', '13464043']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8046160232360299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622154070867407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7803759616211009
- Mean Citation Score: 359.79058
- Max Citation Score: 451.13425
- Similarity Product: 380.2755967985392

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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