PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090502
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["702", "130000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for estimating remaining or utilized scrubbing capacity of a gas scrubber are described. Inside the gas scrubber, a reaction gas is produced by an exothermic or endothermic reaction. Temperature sensors are positioned along the gas flow path, and temperature readings are obtained. Temperature differences between pairs of adjacent temperature sensors are determined. The largest temperature difference for each such pair is recorded. A recent temperature difference is normalized by dividing the recent difference by the largest recorded for the same pair. One or more of the normalized temperature differences may be weighted. The normalized temperature differences and/or the weighted temperature differences are combined to provide a life-value, which is indicative of the remaining or utilized scrubbing capacity of the gas scrubber.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of estimating scrubbing capacity of a gas scrubber, comprising:\n (a) providing a gas scrubber having a canister with reactive material inside the canister, and further having a plurality of temperature sensors at different locations along a gas flow path; (b) causing gas to flow through the canister so that the gas contacts the reactive material and thereby causes a Thermic reaction to occur between the gas and the reactive material; (c) during a time period, taking a reading from each of the temperature sensors to provide a temperature indication for each of the temperature sensors; (d) storing the temperature indications; (e) repeating steps c and d for other time periods until a desired number of time periods have occurred; (f) for each time period, using the stored temperature indications, determining a temperature difference for each adjacent pair of temperature sensors to provide a set of temperature differences; (g) using the sets, for each pair of adjacent temperature sensors, selecting a largest of the temperature differences (\u201cT L \u201d); (h) for each pair of adjacent temperature sensors, selecting a recent one of the time periods and dividing each temperature difference in that time period by the corresponding T L  to provide a normalized temperature difference for each pair of adjacent temperature sensors; (i) combining the normalized temperature differences to provide a comparison value; (j) comparing the comparison value to a threshold value to provide a life-value that is indicative of a difference between the comparison value and the threshold value; (k) providing the life-value to a user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12893043', '14009694', '10821065', '14069875', '14297129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1910635428049271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4749714804798183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2194543365724163
- Mean Citation Score: 163.389422
- Max Citation Score: 171.50323
- Similarity Product: 122.59404578334092

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

Dataset: test