PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["366", "279000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided for monitoring a flow behavior of mixed components without requiring additional instrumentation or sampling. The method is carried out by determining ratios of the power required to rotate a mixing impeller at different rotational speeds and then comparing the ratios. Characteristics about the mixed components are determined based on differences between the ratios.

Claim (Index 5):
A method for detecting settled solids at a mixing impeller, comprising:\n providing the mixing impeller in a mixing vessel, wherein the mixing impeller comprises a mixing impeller housing which houses at least one magnet and at least one mixing blade attached to the mixing impeller housing, wherein the mixing impeller housing is at least partly arranged in a mounting depression in a side wall of the mixing vessel, wherein the at least one magnet is magnetically connected to a motor to be driven; accommodating components to be mixed in the mixing vessel; rotating the mixing impeller such that mixing impeller housing is levitating in the mounting depression; moving the mixing impeller in a direction having a movement component substantially perpendicular to a rotation axis of the mixing impeller so that a gap between the mixing impeller housing and the mounting depression reduces; and determining that mixing impeller is blocked by solids if the mixing impeller has not moved the specified distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.2766
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010317', '12775604', '10644997', '14782767', '15166397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560725998887722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5157507836818306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7320404182680781
- Mean Citation Score: 192.01214
- Max Citation Score: 349.3883
- Similarity Product: 278.70627214720247

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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