PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16183541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["406", "133000"]

Abstract:
A feed center for powder coating material includes a hopper, an extraction duct, and a control valve. The hopper is in fluid communication with a fluidizing pressure source. The extraction duct is in fluid communication with at least one suction source. The control valve connects the extraction duct with an extraction port of the hopper. The control valve is operable between a first position for applying suction from the at least one suction source to the hopper, and a second position providing an exterior opening in at least one of the control valve and the first extraction duct for exhausting pressurized fluid from the hopper and/or collecting at least some of the air and powder that is exhausted from the powder.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for cleaning a powder coating material from a feed center including a hopper in fluid communication with a fluidizing pressure source, an extraction duct in fluid communication with at least one suction source, and a control valve connecting the extraction duct with an extraction port disposed on a portion of the hopper, the method comprising:\n actuating the control valve from a second position in which an exterior opening is provided in at least one of the control valve and the extraction duct, to a first position in which the exterior opening is closed; applying suction from the extraction duct to the extraction port of the hopper; disconnecting the extraction duct from the extraction port; and pivoting the portion of the hopper from a closed position to an open position to clean an interior portion of the hopper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38889
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15300600', '09888679', '10124493', '11167830', '11425800']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6755067211673755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5492740670754221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6628834557581803
- Mean Citation Score: 254.190652
- Max Citation Score: 404.3768
- Similarity Product: 365.33861159410486

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

Dataset: test