PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16087291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["494", "035000"]

Abstract:
This invention is directed to a centrifuge rotor, such as for use in a disc nozzle centrifuge, having a bowl including an improved positioning and orientation of discharge nozzles for facilitating tangential flow of fluid discharged therefrom relative to the rotor bowl.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for centrifuging a slurry, the method comprising:\n supplying a slurry including fluid to a bowl of a centrifuge rotor having a first plurality of discharge nozzles centered on a first plane along a middle portion of the bowl and a second plurality of discharge nozzles centered on a second plane along the middle portion of the bowl, the middle portion including a largest outside diameter of the bowl; centrifugally forcing, via rotation of the bowl, at least a portion of the fluid into the first and second pluralities of discharge nozzles; and directing the centrifugally forced fluid out of the first and second pluralities of discharge nozzles in a direction substantially tangential to the largest outside diameter of the bowl.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 494.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11662456', '11049627', '11830775', '11114223', '10694867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7032972263805691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4648736912529484
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.679454872867807
- Mean Citation Score: 183.590954
- Max Citation Score: 210.8777
- Similarity Product: 177.75834881602523

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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