PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["141", "095000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure includes a fluid system that may include a fluid conduit ( 30 ) that may be configured for connection with a fluid source ( 20 ) and a fluid destination ( 80 ). The system may include a fluid regulator ( 40 ) that may be configured to regulate fluid flow between said fluid source ( 20 ) and said fluid destination ( 80 ). The system may include a nozzle ( 66 ) that may be connected to the fluid conduit and may configured to connect the fluid conduit with said fluid destination. The system may include a first sensor ( 70.1 ) that may be connected to the fluid conduit, and a second sensor ( 70.4 ) that may be configured to acquire information from which a height of the nozzle can be determined. The system may include a controller ( 50 ) that may be configured to control operation of the fluid regulator according to (i) an output of the first sensor and (ii) the information acquired by the second sensor.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of controlling fluid flow, the method comprising:\n providing a fluid system, the fluid system comprising a fluid control system, and a fluid conduit between a fluid source and a fluid destination, wherein the fluid control system includes:\n a fluid regulator connected to said fluid conduit; \n a flow sensor configured to detect a fluid flow rate of said fluid conduit; \n a pressure sensor configured to detect a fluid pressure of said fluid conduit downstream of the fluid regulator; \n a nozzle connected to said fluid conduit and configured to selectively connect said fluid conduit with said fluid destination; \n a height sensor configured for acquiring a nozzle height; and \n a controller configured to control operation of the fluid regulator; \n obtaining, via the controller, a nozzle height difference between the nozzle height in a calibration configuration of the fluid system and a current value of the nozzle height; deriving, via the controller, an expected nozzle pressure according to at least the fluid flow rate, the fluid pressure, and the nozzle height difference; and controlling, via the controller, operation of the fluid regulator according to the expected nozzle pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01613
- Patent Class: 141.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14946301', '11340260', '11729720', '12578296', '14186165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7108482630469544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4653409826445677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6862975350067158
- Mean Citation Score: 146.404422
- Max Citation Score: 162.57072
- Similarity Product: 127.23750403100964

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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