PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16330078
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["376", "313000"]

Abstract:
Controlled-debris elements inhibit the formation of a fibrous/particulate debris bed that unduly increases the pressure head loss through the perforated plates of strainers in a nuclear power plant emergency core cooling system. In a loss of cooling accident, pumps draw cooling water through the plates, which retain on their surfaces fibrous material in the circulating water to prevent it from reaching the pumps while permitting entrained particulate matter to pass through the perforations. The controlled-debris elements have a specific gravity substantially the same as the circulating water so they are entrained in the cooling water that is drawn toward the strainers and intimately intermix with the fibrous and particulate matter in the cooling water. The elements are configured to provide open structures in the bed formed on the plate surfaces to distribute fibers in the flow away from the surface and maintain cavities between the elements for the particulates.

Claim (Index 22):
A nuclear power plant as in  claim 18 , wherein the controlled-debris means has a specific gravity that matches the specific gravity of the cooling water at at least one temperature following LOCA onset.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74157
- Patent Class: 376.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11596097', '12465253', '12568327', '14031185', '13396396']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7019491850774054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5397754800468363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6857318145743485
- Mean Citation Score: 323.572048
- Max Citation Score: 392.59662
- Similarity Product: 250.285441896776

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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