PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896690
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "184000"]

Abstract:
The present application is directed to systems and methods for on-board fuel separation. The system includes: a source fuel tank for liquid fuel; a pump; and a membrane module. The membrane module includes a hydrophilic membrane, a retentate channel, and a permeate channel. The retentate and permeate channels are on opposing sides of the membrane. The membrane module receives fuel from the source fuel tank and separates the liquid fuel into a high octane fraction that collects in the retentate channel and a low octane fraction that diffuses through the membrane to the permeate channel. The system further includes a low octane fuel tank for receiving at least a portion of the low octane fraction, a high octane fuel tank for receiving at least a portion of the high octane fraction, and an engine configured to selectively receive at least a portion of the low and high octane fractions.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for on-board fuel separation in a vehicle using membrane distillation, the method comprising:\n pumping liquid fuel from a source fuel tank to a membrane module, wherein the membrane module comprises a hydrophilic membrane, a retentate channel, and a permeate channel, the retentate and permeate channels being disposed on opposing sides of the hydrophilic membrane; separating, via the membrane module, the liquid fuel into a high octane fraction and a low octane fraction, wherein the high octane fraction collects in the retentate channel and the low octane fraction diffuses through the hydrophilic membrane to the permeate channel; selectively delivering at least a portion of the hot octane fraction from the retentate channel to a high octane fuel tank or to an engine of the vehicle; and selectively delivering at least a portion of the low octane fraction from the permeate channel to a low octane fuel tank or to the engine of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65574
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14077375', '10248592', '12371611', '13534370', '11534764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8013168580000659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837052156671754
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7695556937667768
- Mean Citation Score: 234.625684
- Max Citation Score: 242.44948
- Similarity Product: 195.7523199778461

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

Dataset: test