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 6):
The measurement apparatus in accordance with  claim 1 , wherein the noise is caused by one of breakaway vortices present at an interference body projecting into the flow, perforations of the housing disturbing the flow, and deformations of the housing disturbing the flow; and wherein the interference body is arranged directly upstream of the third 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): 0.7213106755066047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503344705031536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6995140784590979
- Mean Citation Score: 205.901076
- Max Citation Score: 210.32407
- Similarity Product: 125.37987640301644

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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