PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009341
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["366", "219000"]

Abstract:
A fluidics module rotatable about a rotational center includes first and second chambers and a compression chamber. First and second fluid channels are provided between the first and second chambers and the compression chamber, respectively. The flow resistance of the second fluid channel is smaller, for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the second chamber, than a flow resistance of the first fluid channel for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the first chamber. Upon rotation at a high rotational frequency, liquid is initially introduced from the first chamber into the compression chamber via the first fluid channel, so that a compressible medium is compressed within the compression chamber. Subsequently, the rotational frequency is reduced, so that the compressible medium within the compression chamber will expand and so that, thereby, liquid is driven into the second chamber via the second fluid channel.

Claim (Index 2):
A fluidics module rotatable about a rotational center, comprising:\n a first chamber including a fluid outlet; a compression chamber; a second chamber including a fluid inlet; a first fluid channel between the fluid outlet of the first chamber and the compression chamber; a second fluid channel between the compression chamber and the fluid inlet of the second chamber, wherein a liquid may be centrifugally driven through the first fluid channel from the first chamber into the compression chamber, wherein the second fluid channel includes at least one portion whose beginning is located further outward radially than its end, wherein a flow resistance of the second fluid channel for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the second chamber is smaller than a flow resistance of the first fluid channel for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the first chamber, wherein, upon rotation of the fluidics module, a compressible medium within the compression chamber may be trapped and compressed by a liquid driven from the first chamber into the compression chamber by centrifugal force, and wherein liquid may be driven into the second chamber from the compression chamber through the second fluid channel by a reduction of the rotational frequency and by consequent expansion of the compressible medium, and wherein the compression chamber permits the liquid driven from the first chamber into the compression chamber by centrifugal force to trap and compress the compressible medium in the compression chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7931
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14459530', '15368714', '12350281', '13852367', '11690731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8182513441220243
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5286224876684386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7892884584766657
- Mean Citation Score: 256.475932
- Max Citation Score: 402.1796
- Similarity Product: 371.2688627397537

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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