PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16292233
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["210", "763000"]

Abstract:
In an improved fiber-film type contactor/separator an enhanced coalescing zone is provided by the presence of a disengagement device connected to a shroud that contains a bundle of high surface area vertical hanging fibers, where the enhanced coalescing zone diverts a portion of an admixture of immiscible liquids to flow radially in a path not parallel to the vertical axis of the hanging fibers whereby the diverted portion of liquids contacts a coalescing surface to cause at least one of the liquids to coalesce into droplets. The immiscible liquids are allowed to settle into separate phase layers and first and second outlets selectively remove the higher density liquid from the lower density liquid.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of retrofitting an apparatus designed for separating an admixture of at least two immiscible liquids into separate phases, where the apparatus before retrofitting comprises a plurality of hanging fibers defining a vertical axis that are contained in a shroud that is configured to only allow the admixture of liquids to flow downward along the hanging fibers parallel to the vertical axis, where the retrofitting comprises:\n providing a vessel containing the shroud having an existing length and that encloses the vertical hanging fibers; opening the vessel to provide access to the shroud; and adding a disengagement device to the shroud to form an enhanced coalescing zone that allows a portion of the admixture of liquids to exit the disengagement device through one or more openings following a flow path that is not parallel to the vertical axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58904
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15485488', '13546634', '15869271', '15189154', '16025790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8327958797691812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.536350847209087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8031513765131718
- Mean Citation Score: 326.7612220000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.59872
- Similarity Product: 317.8154506650925

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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