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 23):
A submerged combustion melter system for melting a glass-forming material, the submerged combustion melter system comprising:\n a melt chamber comprising:\n a floor defining at least one burner opening; \n at least one wall extending from the floor; \n a roof disposed a top portion of the at least one wall, wherein the floor, the at least one wall, and the roof define a melt chamber interior; \n a material inlet for introducing the glass-forming material to the melt chamber interior; and \n a material outlet for removing the glass-forming material from the melt chamber interior; and \n a submerged combustion burner disposed in the at least one burner opening, the submerged combustion burner comprising:\n a burner body comprising an internal mixing chamber defined by a first interior sidewall, a second interior sidewall, a bottom interior wall spanning the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall, and an outlet port disposed opposite the bottom interior wall, wherein the outpet port is communicatively coupled to the melt chamber interior; \n at least one cooling space at least partially defined by the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall; \n a cooling fluid inlet conduit and a cooling fluid outlet conduit, wherein each of the cooling fluid inlet conduit and the cooling fluid outlet conduit are connected to the at least one cooling space; \n at least one fuel inlet communicatively coupled to the mixing chamber, wherein the at least one fuel inlet penetrates the first interior sidewall, and wherein the at least one fuel inlet is configured to introduce a fuel to the mixing chamber; and \n at least one oxidant inlet communicatively coupled to the mixing chamber, wherein the at least one oxidant inlet penetrates the second interior sidewall, and wherein the at least one oxidant inlet is configured to introduce an oxidant to the mixing chamber, wherein the mixing chamber is configured to effectively mix a substantial portion of the fuel and the oxidant to form a fuel/oxidant mixture prior to discharge of the fuel/oxidant mixture through the outlet port.

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): 0.7874174812772768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5401549667081981
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.762691229820369
- Mean Citation Score: 374.314902
- Max Citation Score: 397.20877
- Similarity Product: 319.45747422790413

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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