PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["210", "251000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a membrane bioreactor system capable of minimizing the energy consumption while guaranteeing excellent membrane cleaning effect. According to the membrane bioreactor system of the present invention, a filtration apparatus for solid-liquid separation is provided in an aerobic tank and a portion of fine bubbles supplied to increase the dissolved oxygen of wastewater introduced into the aerobic tank are used for cleaning the membrane of the filtration apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
A membrane bioreactor system comprising:\n an aerobic tank configured to receive a wastewater from at least one of a flow control tank, an anoxic tank and an anaerobic tank; a fine bubble generator disposed in the aerobic tank to increase a dissolved oxygen of the wastewater introduced into the aerobic tank; and a filtration apparatus submerged in the wastewater introduced into the aerobic tank, the filtration apparatus disposed directly above the fine bubble generator, wherein the filtration apparatus comprises: a filtration membrane module; and a bubble-converting device disposed below the filtration membrane module and configured to convert a portion of fine bubbles provided by the fine bubble generator into coarse bubbles suitable for filtration membrane cleaning, wherein the bubble-converting device comprises: a case having a lower opening and a collecting space configured to confine the portion of the fine bubbles introduced therein via the lower opening; a main pipe extending downwardly from a circumference of a first hole formed in an upper plate of the case; and a branch pipe extending from a circumference of a second hole formed in a side of the main pipe, and wherein the main pipe is in fluid communication with the collecting space via the branch pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56522
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12682197', '13415539', '13994403', '11070134', '16104398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7631683908700794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985831515411053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.736709866937182
- Mean Citation Score: 235.94797000000003
- Max Citation Score: 247.3215
- Similarity Product: 184.3686179679036

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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