PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "746000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for discriminating between liquids having differing thermal conductivities includes a thermally conductive substrate, a resistor and a thermistor mounted to the thermally conductive substrate. Two leads on the resistor enable a current to be passed through the resistor to generate heat, and two leads on the thermistor enable a current to be passed through the thermistor to generate a datum indicative of thermistor temperature. An electrical insulator encapsulates the resistor, the thermistor and part of the thermally conductive substrate. A remainder of the thermally conductive substrate may extend beyond the electrical insulator to provide a thermal path from the resistor and thermistor to a liquid in which the apparatus may be immersed.

Claim (Index 12):
A separator for separating F.O.G. from an effluent that contains F.O.G. comprising\n a tank, an inlet to the tank for receiving effluent that contains F.O.G. and an outlet to allow grey water to leave the tank, the tank having a size to enable stratification to form a layer of F.O.G. in the tank on top of water in the tank, and a sensor apparatus at a location within the tank for discriminating between F.O.G. and water at the location in the tank including a thermally conductive substrate, a resistor mounted to the thermally conductive substrate with two leads to enable a current to be passed through the resistor to generate heat, a thermistor mounted to the substrate with two leads to enable a current to be passed through the thermistor to generate a datum indicative of thermistor temperature, and an electrical insulator encapsulating the resistor, the thermistor and at least part of the thermally conductive substrate, whereby differing signals in the thermistor can be sensed to determine if the sensor apparatus is surrounded by F.O.G. or water.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24074
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12121861', '12942539', '14932998', '14775433', '11485562']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7487454533532332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4659162597842812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.720462533996338
- Mean Citation Score: 182.79096
- Max Citation Score: 204.5463
- Similarity Product: 184.678998173976

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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