PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["060", "203100"]

Abstract:
The invention provides an electrothermal RF plasma production system and thruster design, and associated components, that may be used in terrestrial applications and/or miniaturized to the mass, volume, and power budget of Cube Satellites (CubeSats) to meet the propulsion needs of the small satellite (˜5 to ˜500 kg) constellations and larger satellite buses.

Claim (Index 1):
A plasma production device comprising:\n (a) a substantially cylindrical plasma production chamber having a cylinder body, a first closed end and a second open end; (b) a magnet system comprising one or more radially-disposed magnets configured to establish a magnetic field within the plasma production chamber and oriented substantially parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the plasma production chamber such that each magnet produces a magnetic field of the same polarity within the plasma production chamber; (c) a propellant tank and a flow regulator in communication with the plasma production chamber and configured to deliver a gaseous propellant into the plasma production chamber; and (d) a radio frequency (RF) antenna comprising a flat spiral region external to the plasma production chamber and disposed on an external surface of the first closed end, electrically coupled to an AC power source, and configured to deliver an RF energy to an interior region of the plasma production chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.29167
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13206381', '14369282', '11926279', '13203774', '12449612']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6868018991962584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754963923114368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6656713485077762
- Mean Citation Score: 217.704938
- Max Citation Score: 231.54132
- Similarity Product: 194.9817930379272

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

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