PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16076629
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["435", "082000"]

Abstract:
A method for producing a saccharified solution making it possible that while the concentration of a solid in a reactor is kept high at an initial stage of hydrolyzing a cellulose contained in a biomass with an enzyme, the biomass is earlier solubilized to be made into a slurry form. In the method, at an initial stage of mixing an aqueous solution containing a biomass pulverized in a reactor, the aqueous solution is poured into reactor, and then pulverized biomass is supplied thereinto step by step while content in reactor is stirred. A final solid concentration in reactor is set into the range of 15 to 30% both inclusive by mass. The reactor's bottom plane is made into a conical or mirror plate form. At least in upper and lower parts of the reactor's inside, plural stirring fans having a long rotation radius are located to stir content in reactor.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for producing a saccharified solution of hydrolyzing a cellulose-type biomass with an enzyme to yield a saccharified solution, comprising:\n a step A of decomposing a hemicellulose comprised in the cellulose-type biomass by hot-water treatment or with a hemicellulose hydrolase, a step B of mixing a solid residue yielded by removing the hemicellulose with an aqueous solution comprising a cellulose hydrolase in a reactor, adjusting the mixture to set a solid concentration therein into a range of 15 to 30% both inclusive by mass, and subsequently using a stirring device located in the reactor to stir the mixture to solubilize the solid residue, from which the hemicellulose has been removed, a step C of continuing cellulose hydrolysis reaction inside the reactor while stirring the mixture by the stirring device until the cellulose hydrolysis reaction inside the reactor is finished, and a step D of taking out a slurry of the mixture from the reactor after the hydrolysis reaction, wherein in the step B, the aqueous solution comprising the cellulose hydrolase is poured into the reactor, and subsequently the solid residue yielded through the step A, from which the hemicellulose has been removed, is supplied step by step into the reactor while a content in the reactor is stirred by the stirring device located in the reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85227
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14655485', '15104356', '15026607', '14346709', '12443515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5650187024484543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5135939578956914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.559876227993178
- Mean Citation Score: 278.78565
- Max Citation Score: 303.61694
- Similarity Product: 245.307294598695

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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