PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "861280"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a measurement apparatus ( 10 ) and to a method for the determination of a flow rate (v) and/or of a throughflow (Q) of a fluid ( 14 ) flowing in a conduit ( 12 ) comprising at least one first ultrasonic transducer ( 18 ) and one second ultrasonic transducer ( 20 ) that permit a flow rate determination via the time of flight of an ultrasound signal. To further improve the determination of a flow rate of a fluid using ultrasonic transducers, in particular at very high flow rates, and to enable the measurement of very high flow rates, it is proposed that a noise-measuring ultrasonic transducer ( 18, 20; 24 ) is provided that measures the noise generated in on the flowing past of the fluid ( 14 ) in the ultrasonic transducer and a control and evaluation device ( 32 ) is configured to determine the flow rate (v) using the noise measurements.

Claim (Index 4):
The measurement apparatus in accordance with  claim 1 , wherein the noise is generated by breakaway vortices present at the noise-measuring ultrasonic transducer itself or by breakaway vortices present at a housing for the noise-measuring ultrasonic transducer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25974
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15489986', '12891090', '15816148', '15366823', '10188493']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7216864287577262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014466660329407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6996624524852476
- Mean Citation Score: 205.901076
- Max Citation Score: 210.32407
- Similarity Product: 128.55994492647292

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