PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16064138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "361000"]

Abstract:
A minimal-amount powder metering device ( 1 ) for pharmaceutical or chemical applications, for metering powder volumes of less than 1 cm 3 , comprising a metering chamber ( 3 ) which is delimited by a surrounding wall ( 9 ) and which can be connected to a vacuum source ( 28 ) for suctioning powder in order to fill the metering chamber ( 3 ) with powder to be metered, filter means for retaining powder in the metering chamber ( 3 ) during a suctioning process being associated with the metering chamber ( 3 ), including the filter means are formed by the surrounding wall ( 9 ) and including at least one suction opening ( 12, 13 ) which serves to retain the powder in the metering chamber ( 3 ) and through which a vacuum can be applied to the metering chamber ( 3 ) is formed in the surrounding wall ( 9 ).

Claim (Index 10):
The minimal-amount powder metering device ( 1 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein the filter means have at least two suction openings ( 12 ,  13 ) in the metering-chamber surrounding wall ( 9 ), a vacuum being applicable to said suction openings via valve means in such a manner that by applying the vacuum to at least one of the suction openings ( 12 ,  13 ), at least another one of the suction openings ( 12 ,  13 ) can be flushed into the metering chamber ( 3 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41791
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12744366', '13992970', '12680562', '12744415', '14943798']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7794814604075619
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4749016152889508
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7490234758957008
- Mean Citation Score: 180.379152
- Max Citation Score: 185.59654
- Similarity Product: 135.14873780185698

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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