PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["422", "137000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for continuously producing chemically-modified cellulose, the apparatus having a first mechanism for transporting a fine-powder cellulose fiber starting material and a hydrophobizing chemical substance, a specific extruder, a solvent tank connected to the extruder, and a dryer connected to the solvent tank, and a method for continuously producing chemically-modified cellulose, the method having a step of washing, in the solvent tank, chemically-modified cellulose having been produced out of the fine-powder cellulose fiber starting material and the hydrophobizing chemical substance in the extruder, and then drying the chemically-modified cellulose in the dryer, in order to remove any unreacted hydrophobizing chemical substance.

Claim (Index 7):
The method for continuously producing chemically-modified cellulose according to  claim 5 , wherein in the first step, a mixture containing 0.5 parts by mass to 30 parts by mass of the hydrophobizing chemical substance with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cellulose fiber starting material is kneaded.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56818
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15553815', '15556220', '12809863', '15463484', '14343118']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7941456315264389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929979626691589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.764030864640711
- Mean Citation Score: 172.342644
- Max Citation Score: 218.32341
- Similarity Product: 134.59930156940106

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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