PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16302028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["159", "016200"]

Abstract:
A submerged combustion apparatus for heating a liquid including a liquid vessel that contains the liquid, a combustion chamber including a combustion chamber body, an inlet and a plurality of discharge ports, the combustion chamber body being positioned in the vessel so that at least the discharge ports are submerged in liquid in use, a burner that allows an air/fuel mixture to be burned at least partially within the combustion chamber thereby causing bubbles of heated gaseous combustion products to be emitted from the discharge ports so as to heat the liquid and a guide surface spaced apart from and extending along at least part of a length of a combustion chamber body outer surface so as to guide bubbles emitted from the discharge ports so that the bubbles are at least partially constrained to flow between the combustion chamber body outer surface and the guide surface.

Claim (Index 14):
A submerged combustion apparatus for heating a liquid, the apparatus including:\n a) a liquid vessel that contains the liquid, the liquid vessel having:\n i) a vessel inlet that receives liquid from a liquid supply; and, \n ii) a vessel outlet that discharges liquid and any precipitates; \n b) a combustion chamber including:\n i) a combustion chamber body; \n ii) an inlet proximate a first end of the combustion chamber body; and \n iii) a plurality of discharge ports proximate a second end of the combustion chamber body, wherein the combustion chamber body is positioned in the liquid vessel so that at least the outlet discharge ports are submerged in liquid in use; and, \n c) a burner having:\n i) a burner air inlet that receives pressurized air from an air supply; \n ii) a fuel inlet that receives a fuel from a fuel supply; and, \n iii) a burner outlet in fluid communication with the combustion chamber allowing an air/fuel mixture to be burned at least partially within the combustion chamber thereby causing bubbles of heated gaseous combustion products to be emitted from the plurality of discharge ports so as to heat the liquid; and, \n d) at least one sensor that senses an operating parameter; and, e) a controller that in use at least partially controls operation of the apparatus in accordance with the at least one operating parameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4127
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10832587', '13157606', '14785330', '11186459', '15610215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6929278310622285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.549132880684915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6785483360244972
- Mean Citation Score: 223.866594
- Max Citation Score: 241.64226
- Similarity Product: 187.3810563068461

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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