PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940166
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["366", "165100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating a swirl is disclosed that is used to induce an axi-symmetric swirling flow to an incoming flow. The disclosed subject matter induces a uniform and axi-symmetric swirl, circumferentially around a discharge location, thus imparting a more accurate, repeatable, continuous, and controllable swirl and mixing condition of interest. Moreover, the disclosed subject matter performs the swirl injection at a lower pressure drop in comparison to a more traditional methods and devices.

Claim (Index 1):
A swirl generator, comprising:\n a central chamber; an upstream nozzle connected to a first end of the central chamber, wherein the upstream nozzle is configured to carry an incoming flow having no swirl; a conical downstream nozzle connected to a second end of the central chamber, wherein the downstream nozzle is configured to receive an outgoing flow from the central chamber; at least one injector in fluid communication with the central chamber, the at least one injector having: a plenum having a plenum inlet and a plenum discharge; a slot connecting at a first end with the plenum discharge and connecting radially tangentially at a second end with the central chamber to form a fluid passage from the; and a plenum feed connecting with the plenum inlet, wherein the injector is configured to introduce a uniform axi-symmetric swirl to the flow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57407
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14534263', '10422265', '15577934', '15382112', '14645959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8073906477727114
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5502274102273534
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816743240181756
- Mean Citation Score: 260.192288
- Max Citation Score: 475.47507
- Similarity Product: 372.8491629256654

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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