PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["451", "011000"]

Abstract:
A method of prepping a cylindrical inner surface of a bore using a high-frequency forced pulsed waterjet apparatus entails generating a pressurized waterjet using a high-pressure water pump, generating a high-frequency signal using a high-frequency signal generator, applying the high-frequency signal to a transducer having a microtip to cause the microtip to vibrate to thereby generate the high-frequency forced pulsed waterjet, and rotating the rotatable ultrasonic nozzle inside the bore to prep the inner cylindrical surface of the bore using the high-frequency forced pulsed waterjets exiting from the angled exit orifices of the rotatable ultrasonic nozzle.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus for prepping a cylindrical inner surface of a bore using a high-frequency forced pulsed waterjet, the method comprising:\n a rotatable nozzle sized to be inserted inside the bore; a high-pressure water pump for generating a pressurized waterjet; a high-frequency signal generator for generating a high-frequency signal; and an ultrasonic transducer in the rotatable nozzle to generate the high-frequency forced pulsed waterjet using the high-frequency signal; wherein the rotatable nozzle head includes a curved conduit leading to at least one angled exit orifice that directs the waterjet perpendicularly to an axis of rotation of the rotatable nozzle to direct the waterjet radially outwardly against the surface of the bore to prep the inner cylindrical surface of a substrate material of the bore to a predetermined uniform surface finish characterized by an average surface roughness Ra that is within a predetermined range of surface roughness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08333
- Patent Class: 451.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14285196', '14019160', '12504188', '13301083', '12980653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8269746872472574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6829585140819171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8125730699307234
- Mean Citation Score: 595.8165740000002
- Max Citation Score: 805.5012
- Similarity Product: 711.3401526333333

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

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