PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["034", "417000"]

Abstract:
An installation has a process chamber defining an inner space having a tunnel-like form defining a receiving region for workpieces. The process chamber has a portal for the supply or discharge of workpieces and has a device for introducing gaseous fluid into the inner space. The device has a nozzle for producing a fluid stream curtain between the portal and the receiving region. A device supplies fresh air introduced into the receiving region at a side of the fluid stream curtain facing away from the portal. The installation has a pivotable guide contour projecting into the inner space and the nozzle or aperture is in the form of a slot which supplies the gaseous fluid to the inner space via the ceiling with a flow direction oblique relative to the floor. The gaseous fluid supplied via the nozzle to the inner space is guided on the guide contour.

Claim (Index 31):
The method of  claim 27 , wherein said installation further includes a device for conducting fresh air and an arrangement for controlling the temperature of circulating air, the arrangement including a heating device for thermally cleaning exhaust air from the tunnel-shaped inner space and the heating device including a combustion chamber, the method further comprising:\n generating the fluid flow curtain with a time averaged fresh air quantity remaining constant over a time span, the fresh air quantity being conducted through the nozzle or aperture; in said time span, conducting a variable fresh air quantity into the inner space with the device for conducting the fresh air, the variable fresh air quantity being open-loop or closed loop controlled in dependence upon a process chamber operating state parameter selected from:\n (a) carbon and/or solvent content of the atmosphere in the receiving region; \n (b) number and/or weight workpieces in the receiving region; \n (c) number and/or weight of workpieces supplied per unit of time to the receiving region; \n (d) temperature of the exhaust air from the combustion chamber of the heating device in the arrangement for controlling the temperature of the circulating air; \n (e) temperature difference of gaseous fluid which is drawn from the receiving region and which is supplied to the receiving region again; \n (f) temperature difference of gaseous fluid from the receiving region, which is supplied to the combustion chamber of the heating device of the arrangement for controlling the temperature of the circulating air, and of exhaust air from the combustion chamber of the heating device; and, \n (g) heat quantity per time unit which is supplied to the process chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 83.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29851
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14398721', '15230078', '13872880', '15749061', '15749064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7082883419702555
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.55602788591031
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6930622963642609
- Mean Citation Score: 319.7637840000001
- Max Citation Score: 449.39972
- Similarity Product: 340.9908063166618

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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