PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "746000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for discriminating between liquids having differing thermal conductivities includes a thermally conductive substrate, a resistor and a thermistor mounted to the thermally conductive substrate. Two leads on the resistor enable a current to be passed through the resistor to generate heat, and two leads on the thermistor enable a current to be passed through the thermistor to generate a datum indicative of thermistor temperature. An electrical insulator encapsulates the resistor, the thermistor and part of the thermally conductive substrate. A remainder of the thermally conductive substrate may extend beyond the electrical insulator to provide a thermal path from the resistor and thermistor to a liquid in which the apparatus may be immersed.

Claim (Index 11):
An apparatus for discriminating between liquids having differing thermal conductivities comprising\n a thermally conductive substrate, a resistor mounted to the substrate with two leads to enable a current to be passed through the resistor to generate heat, a thermistor mounted to the substrate with two leads to enable a current to be passed through the thermistor to generate a datum indicative of thermistor temperature, wherein one lead of the resistor and one lead of the thermistor are both electrically connected to a common region conductor of the mounted on the thermally conductive substrate with thermal paste between the substrate and the resistor and thermistor, an electrical insulator encapsulating the resistor, the thermistor and at least part of the substrate, and wherein the leads of the thermistor are connected to a data gathering unit that samples the data indicative of thermistor temperature over a period and computes a ratio of temperature rise, the denominator of the ratio being the temperature rise in a first part of the period and the numerator of the ratio being the temperature rise in a second part of the period after the first part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24074
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12121861', '12942539', '14932998', '14775433', '11485562']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7456546404487496
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823006482801286
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7193192412318875
- Mean Citation Score: 182.79096
- Max Citation Score: 204.5463
- Similarity Product: 158.83280828765632

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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