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 17):
The apparatus for continuously producing a cellulose composite resin according to  claim 16 , wherein an average particle size d of the fine-powder cellulose fiber starting material is 1 nm\u2264d\u2264150 \u03bcm.

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): 0.7948198344819033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887378188917797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.764211632922891
- Mean Citation Score: 172.342644
- Max Citation Score: 218.32341
- Similarity Product: 142.39664057276843

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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