PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16081471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["415", "104000"]

Abstract:
A single-stage or multi-stage centrifugal pump has a balancing disc for balancing the axial forces of the pump. The balancing disc includes at least one annular groove in at least one of the non-axial counter surfaces and of the balancing disc and the counter member.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of balancing an axial thrust of a centrifugal pump in accordance with  claim 1 , the method comprising:\n arranging the throttling downstream of the balancing disc for controlling the amount of liquid leaking via the balancing device, providing the counter member with the counter ring having the second non-axial surface, and providing the balancing disc with the annular ring having the first non-axial surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62069
- Patent Class: 415.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12264662', '13668554', '14191312', '14034357', '12454204']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7950107903247802
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4220582717179784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577155384641
- Mean Citation Score: 192.513714
- Max Citation Score: 195.11758
- Similarity Product: 163.75374868460656

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

Dataset: test