PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "380000"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing glass fibers having regions devoid of glass using submerged combustion melters, including feeding a vitrifiable feed material into a feed inlet of a melting zone of a melter vessel, and heating the vitrifiable material with at least one burner directing combustion products of an oxidant and a first fuel into the melting zone under a level of the molten material in the zone. One or more of the burners is configured to impart heat and turbulence to the molten material, producing a turbulent molten material comprising a plurality of bubbles suspended in the molten material, the bubbles comprising at least some of the combustion products, and optionally other gas species introduced by the burners. The molten material and bubbles are drawn through a bushing fluidly connected to a forehearth to produce a glass fiber comprising a plurality of interior regions substantially devoid of glass.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of introducing a fuel/oxidant mixture with a submerged combustion burner to a lower section of an interior of a submerged combustion melter for melting a glass-forming material disposed in the lower section, the method comprising:\n providing the submerged combustion burner comprising a base and a body secured to the submerged combustion burner opposite the base; introducing, to the submerged combustion burner, a first fluid via a first conduit disposed in the submerged combustion burner and a second fluid via at least one second conduit disposed in the submerged combustion burner, wherein the first conduit defines a longitudinal axis of the submerged combustion burner; introducing, to a first passage defined by the body, the first fluid from the first conduit; introducing, to a plurality of second passages defined by the body, the second fluid from the at least one second conduit, wherein at least two of the plurality of second passages are disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis; mixing the first fluid and the second fluid in a mixing region to form a mixture, wherein the mixing region is at least partially defined by the body and in fluidic communication with the lower section of the interior of the submerged combustion melter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9625
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272703', '13540771', '14686102', '16405770', '14785325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.801348393617544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5711855366925619
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7783321079250458
- Mean Citation Score: 408.6891240000001
- Max Citation Score: 444.4043
- Similarity Product: 392.5409966015517

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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