PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009103
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["164", "453000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for sensing the position of an ingot within a segmented mold of a vacuum metallurgical system. An inductive sensory system measures the variations in current between a power source and load of an induction heating coil. The system and method is particularly suitable for determining the position of an ingot within a melting system mold where the mold has a relatively reduced or small cross-sectional area.

Claim (Index 21):
A vacuum metallurgical system comprising:\n a segmented mold having an input end and an extraction end, configured to receive and cast a molten metal or alloy into an ingot; a primary heating induction coil positioned at least in part around the segmented mold and configured to induce heat in an interior region of the segmented mold; an heating power supply electrically coupled to and powering the primary heating induction coil; a tuning capacitor configured to tune the electrical circuit comprising at least the primary heating induction coil, the segmented mold, and the power supply; at least one sense coil positioned at least in part around an electrical conductor between the tuning capacitor and the primary heating induction coil; an ingot position actuator positioned to support and move the ingot and/or molten metal or alloy within the segmented mold; and an ingot position controller operatively coupled in series with the at least one sense coil and configured to measure changes in electrical current detected by the at least one sense coil, and wherein the ingot position controller is also operatively coupled with the ingot position actuator and configured to instruct the ingot position actuator to move molten metal or alloy within the segmented mold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58696
- Patent Class: 164.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15898474', '14831911', '12821480', '13793115', '10749893']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7569974346768961
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900759758670865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7303052887959152
- Mean Citation Score: 226.117894
- Max Citation Score: 230.4234
- Similarity Product: 178.19216806983945

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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