PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["073", "649000"]

Abstract:
A clamping apparatus for coupling an ultrasonic transducer to a conduit is disclosed. The clamping apparatus comprises a base portion fastened to the conduit and including a bracket for receiving an adapter. The adapter is attached to a housing and allows the housing to be rotated when the adapter is positioned in an upper portion of the bracket, and prevents the housing from being rotated when the adapter is positioned in a lower portion of the bracket. The housing is configured to enclose the ultrasonic transducer except for a housing opening along the bottom of the housing. The ultrasonic transducer extends through the housing opening and is spring biased against the conduit.

Claim (Index 14):
An apparatus for coupling an ultrasonic transducer to a conduit, the apparatus comprising:\n base portions configured to be fastened to the conduit, the base portions each comprising a bracket extending perpendicularly therefrom, and each bracket comprising an opening having an upper portion and a lower portion; a pair of adapters each configured to be placed into the opening of one of the brackets such that the adapters are not rotatable when moved into the lower portion of the opening, and are rotatable when moved into the upper portion of the opening; an elongated housing having ends each attached to one of the adapters, the housing defining an inside of the housing and having an elongated bottom opening; a pair of ultrasonic transducers secured inside the housing, the ultrasonic transducers for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic signals through the bottom opening of the housing; and at least one hand wheel attached to at least one of the brackets for biasing the housing toward the conduit while the adapters are positioned in the lower portions of the bracket openings, the at least one hand wheel for pressing the pair of ultrasonic transducers against the outside surface of the conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31373
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15115602', '11759105', '15489986', '13241989', '15901014']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.638287992566226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.512013662237233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6256605595333268
- Mean Citation Score: 188.56078800000003
- Max Citation Score: 314.944
- Similarity Product: 307.29820724868773

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

Dataset: test