PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "372000"]

Abstract:
A current discharge probability of a flame sensor is calculated based on the number of drive pulses applied to the flame sensor and the number of discharges determined to have occurred in the flame sensor after receiving the drive pulses. Degradation indices (degradation progress and remaining lifetime) indicating the current degradation state of the flame sensor are calculated based on the calculated current discharge probability of the flame sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
A flame detecting system comprising:\n a flame sensor configured to have a pair of electrodes and detect light generated from a flame; an applied voltage generating portion configured to periodically generate a pulsed voltage and apply the generated pulsed voltage across the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor as drive pulses; a current detecting portion configured to detect a current flowing through the flame sensor; a number-of-discharges counting portion configured to count a number of discharges determined to have occurred across the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor based on the current detected by the current detecting portion when the drive pulses generated by the applied voltage generating portion are applied across the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor; a discharge probability calculating portion configured to calculate a current discharge probability of a discharge occurring between the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor based on a number of the drive pulses applied across the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor by the applied voltage generating portion and the number of discharges counted by the number-of-discharges counting portion when the drive pulses are applied across the pair of electrodes of the flame sensor; and a degradation index calculating portion configured to calculate a degradation index indicating a current degradation state of the flame sensor based on the current discharge probability calculated by the discharge probability calculating portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92105
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15816234', '15816245', '15164340', '15164248', '15164261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7262784881934152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5077959401000357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7044302333840773
- Mean Citation Score: 263.367908
- Max Citation Score: 312.01605
- Similarity Product: 260.7552086995304

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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