PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "380000"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing glass fibers having regions devoid of glass using submerged combustion melters, including feeding a vitrifiable feed material into a feed inlet of a melting zone of a melter vessel, and heating the vitrifiable material with at least one burner directing combustion products of an oxidant and a first fuel into the melting zone under a level of the molten material in the zone. One or more of the burners is configured to impart heat and turbulence to the molten material, producing a turbulent molten material comprising a plurality of bubbles suspended in the molten material, the bubbles comprising at least some of the combustion products, and optionally other gas species introduced by the burners. The molten material and bubbles are drawn through a bushing fluidly connected to a forehearth to produce a glass fiber comprising a plurality of interior regions substantially devoid of glass.

Claim (Index 20):
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 comprising a base, a first conduit, and at least one second conduit, wherein the first conduit defines a longitudinal axis; \n a body secured to an end of the burner opposite the base, wherein the body defines a first passage in communication with the first conduit and a plurality of second passages, wherein at least two of the plurality of second passages are in communication with the at least one second conduit, wherein the at least two of the plurality of second passages are configured to penetrate a surface of the body at a second passage distance from the base, and wherein the at least two of the plurality of second passages are disposed at angles to the longitudinal axis; and \n a cooling annulus disposed substantially about the first conduit and the at least two of the plurality of second conduits, wherein the annulus is configured to circulate therein a cooling fluid to a cooling fluid distance from the base, wherein the cooling fluid distance is greater than the second passage distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9625
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272703', '13540771', '14686102', '16405770', '14785325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003730956728814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5741843641490918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777542225205024
- Mean Citation Score: 408.6891240000001
- Max Citation Score: 444.4043
- Similarity Product: 416.715119071424

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

Dataset: test