PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["250", "288000"]

Abstract:
A plasma unit for a mass spectroscopy machine generates plasma using a microwave coupled dielectric ring held within a microwave cavity employing part of the mass spectrometer structure to define the microwave cavity, thereby permitting improved proximity of the plasma and plasma ionized sample material to the mass spectrometer aperture.

Claim (Index 1):
A plasma unit for mass spectroscopy machines of a type providing a sampler cone having an aperture for receiving ionized sample material along an introduction axis therethrough, the plasma unit comprising\n a dielectric annular ring having an axis aligned with the introduction axis; a conductive shell defining a microwave cavity about the dielectric annular ring comprised of electrically joined cavity walls including sidewalls passing around the axis, a rear end wall, joining a first edge of the sidewalk and a front end wall joining an opposite end of the sidewalls and completed by the sampler cone when the plasma unit is installed on the mass spectroscopy machine; a microwave generator communicating with the microwave cavity through a first aperture in a side wall to excite the dielectric annular ring into resonance to produce an axially extending plasma; and a sample introduction assembly passing through a second aperture in the rear end wall to inject the ionized sample material axially into the dielectric annular ring for ionization.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44444
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14775497', '13994836', '13994880', '14775492', '15287236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6828450513527643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4693645634899763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6614970025664856
- Mean Citation Score: 152.36871599999995
- Max Citation Score: 182.34096
- Similarity Product: 141.38656864268302

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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