PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16122748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["261", "018100"]

Abstract:
An artificial flame apparatus produces a simulated flame using a plume of mist that is illuminated around, about, and through an artificial wick. A mist may be produced by a transducer, such as an ultrasonic transducer that is in contact with liquid from a liquid reservoir. The rate of mist exiting the housing may be modulated to produce a more realistic looking artificial flame. A light source is configured to illuminate the mist and/or the artificial wick. The artificial wick may be in the shape of a wick or flame and may include a light source. One or more light sources may be configured as the artificial wick. The light intensity, color and rate of change of light may be modulated to produce a more realistic looking artificial flame. A standing wave tube may vary the rate of mist exiting one or more enclosure openings in the tube enclosure.

Claim (Index 23):
An artificial flame apparatus, comprising:\n a) a housing; b) a liquid reservoir within said housing and containing a liquid; c) an artificial wick extending from said housing; d) a transducer having a transducer surface; e) a wick structure configured between the liquid reservoir and the transducer surface; wherein said wick structure wicks liquid from the liquid reservoir to the transducer surface; and\n wherein the transducer creates mist from said liquid wicked to the transducer surface and wherein said mist creates a vapor plume as it exits the housing; \n f) a first light source configured with the artificial wick to illuminate said mist exiting the housing; g) a second light source coupled to the housing to illuminate said mist exiting the housing; h) an oscillator device comprising a sonic device that produces sound waves that pushes the mist from the housing such that the mist exiting the housing opening has a varying shape, size, and/or height; i) a controller configured to generate a modulation signal, wherein the modulation signal is configured to drive the transducer to create and vary said mist created by the transducer surface; such that the vapor plume changes shape as a function of the modulation signal;\n wherein the controller varies the first light source configured with the artificial wick to change color and intensity; \n wherein the controller varies the second light source coupled to the housing to change color and intensity; and \n wherein the controller controls the oscillator device that produces the sound waves; \n j) a mist reservoir within the housing that receives said mist generated by the transducer; k) a housing opening in the housing that is proximal to the artificial wick; wherein said mist from the mist reservoir exits the housing through said housing opening and around said artificial wick;\n wherein said illuminated mist appears as an artificial flame; and \n l) a shaping nozzle that shapes the mist as it exits the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36765
- Patent Class: 261.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15179706', '14541523', '15231554', '12677918', '13167042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6567944710949024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154393777373633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6426589617591485
- Mean Citation Score: 217.083176
- Max Citation Score: 336.0527
- Similarity Product: 258.73611559179426

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