PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "715000"]

Abstract:
A process for densifying an annular porous structure comprising flowing a reactant gas into an inner diameter (ID) volume and through an ID surface of the annular porous structure, flowing the reactant gas through an outer diameter (OD) surface of the annular porous structure and into an OD volume, flowing the reactant gas from the OD volume through the OD surface of the annular porous structure, and flowing the reactant gas through an ID surface of the annular porous structure and into the ID volume.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for densifying an annular porous structure comprising:\n a furnace; a graphite susceptor disposed in the furnace; and a reversing valve having a first port and a second port, wherein the first port is coupled to a first inlet/outlet in the furnace via a first line, and wherein the second port is coupled to a second inlet/outlet in the furnace via a second line; wherein the reversing valve has an energized state and an unenergized state; wherein, in the energized state, the first port conveys a reactant gas to the furnace and into an inner diameter (ID) volume; wherein, in the energized state, the second port exhausts the reactant gas through at least one of a second opening disposed in the graphite susceptor and a third opening disposed in the graphite susceptor; wherein, in the unenergized state, the second port conveys the reactant gas to the furnace and into an outer diameter (OD) volume; wherein, in the unenergized state, the first port exhausts reactant gas through a first opening disposed in the graphite susceptor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15056358', '15075481', '15074431', '10780265', '10926889']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8036134331320605
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5585979920393966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791118890227942
- Mean Citation Score: 323.397264
- Max Citation Score: 456.65363
- Similarity Product: 307.43634940297187

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

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