PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["432", "130000"]

Abstract:
Submerged combustion burners having improved fuel and oxidant mixing characteristics. Submerged combustion melters including the burners. Methods of using submerged combustion melters to melt glass-forming materials and produce molten glass.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of introducing a fuel/oxidant mixture with a submerged combustion burner to a lower section of an interior of a submerged combustion melter for melting a glass-forming material disposed in the lower section, the method comprising:\n providing the submerged combustion burner, wherein the submerged combustion burner comprises a mixing chamber at least partially defined by a first interior sidewall, a second interior sidewall disposed opposite the first interior sidewall, an outlet port, and a bottom interior wall disposed opposite the outlet port and spanning the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall,\n wherein the outlet port is communicatively coupled to the lower section of the interior of the melt chamber, \n wherein the mixing chamber comprises a depth dimension from the bottom interior wall to the outlet port, \n wherein the outlet port comprises a width dimension from the first interior sidewall to the second interior sidewall, and \n wherein the outlet port width dimension is less than the mixing chamber depth dimension; \n introducing a fuel from a fuel inlet to the mixing chamber of the submerged combustion burner, wherein the fuel inlet penetrates the first interior sidewall at a first distance below the outlet port; introducing an oxidant from an oxidant inlet to the mixing chamber of the submerged combustion burner, wherein the oxidant inlet penetrates the second interior sidewall at a second distance below the outlet port; mixing the fuel and the oxidant to form the fuel/oxidant mixture in the mixing chamber; and ejecting the fuel/oxidant mixture from the outlet port into the lower section of the interior of the submerged combustion melter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32
- Patent Class: 432.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14785330', '14784995', '14785324', '14785325', '15258900']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7871494883076308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5406369909777308
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7624982385746408
- Mean Citation Score: 374.314902
- Max Citation Score: 397.20877
- Similarity Product: 329.264240015167

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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