PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16062932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "282000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to the technical field of ionizing a gaseous substance, in particular the ionizing or ionization of a gaseous substance in preparation for its analysis. A device is intended to make a discharge gas and a test substance ionizable in a flow-through mode without essentially destroying or fragmenting the sample substance. In order to avoid a high expenditure in terms of construction and equipment, the device is intended to be usable under ambient conditions and to ensure a high sensitivity in a possible analysis of an ionized substance. To this end, an ionizing device is used for flow-through ionization of a discharge gas and of a sample substance at an absolute pressure of more than 40 kPa in the ionizing device during ionization. The ionizing device comprises an inlet, an outlet, a first electrode, a dielectric element and a second electrode. The dielectric element is configured in the shape of a hollow body having an inner side and an outer side and it allows a flow of the discharge gas and of the sample substance therethrough in a flow direction. The first electrode is arranged outside of the outer side of the dielectric element. The second electrode is arranged, at least sectionwise, inside the dielectric element, is surrounded by the inner side of the dielectric element perpendicularly to the flow direction, and allows a flow of the discharge gas and of the sample substance therethrough or therearound. A distance in or contrary to the flow direction exists between the associated ends of the first and second electrodes and lies between -5 mm to 5 mm. A dielectric barrier discharge is establishable in a dielectric barrier discharge region by applying a voltage between the first and second electrodes so as to ionize the discharge gas or the sample substance.

Claim (Index 22):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the dielectric barri+er discharge is caused by unipolar high-voltage pulses having preferably a pulse duration of not more than 1 \u03bcs, particularly preferred not more than 500 ns, and most preferred a duration between 100 ns and 350 ns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69748
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13527627', '15698391', '12281908', '13194137', '15558389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7282916408422628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113703422739033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.706599510985427
- Mean Citation Score: 198.084856
- Max Citation Score: 206.43176
- Similarity Product: 107.50812142969608

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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