PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["422", "105000"]

Abstract:
A sterilization process transition method of switching from an SIP process to a product sterilization process in an apparatus including piping that feeds a product into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part. The process sterilizes the piping before a filling operation, and the product sterilization process sterilizes the product to be filled. An F value is calculated from temperature and flowrate data on a fluid flowing in the heating sterilization part that are obtained from temperature sensors and flowmeters disposed in the product filling apparatus at predetermined time intervals. The temperature and flowrate at two or more predetermined positions in the product filling apparatus are adjusted from a set temperature and a set flowrate for the SIP process to a set temperature and a set flowrate for the product sterilization process while preventing the F value from becoming lower than a predetermined value.

Claim (Index 1):
A sterilization process transition method of switching from an SIP process to a product sterilization process in a product filling apparatus that includes product supply piping that feeds a product into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part, the SIP process being intended to sterilize the product supply piping in advance before a product filling operation, and the product sterilization process being intended to sterilize the product to be filled,\n wherein an F value is calculated from temperature data and flowrate data on a fluid flowing in the heating sterilization part that are obtained from a plurality of temperature sensors and flowmeters disposed at arbitrary positions in the product filling apparatus at predetermined time intervals, and the temperature and flowrate at two or more of the plurality of predetermined positions in the product filling apparatus are adjusted from a set temperature and a set flowrate for the SIP process to a set temperature and a set flowrate for the product sterilization process while preventing the F value from becoming lower than a predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23881
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14352138', '14895622', '15511691', '14646552', '14650737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8384496247909982
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5139723463208334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8060018969439817
- Mean Citation Score: 317.71058
- Max Citation Score: 348.3914
- Similarity Product: 284.25608310528986

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

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