PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["222", "594000"]

Abstract:
An annular weir is fixed at a bottom of a tundish and just under a long nozzle of a ladle in a continuous casting apparatus. The annular weir includes a cavity which has a substantially circular shaped transverse section. The cavity includes: an upper side opening configured to receive a stream of molten metal from an upper side through the long nozzle; an inner protrusion which is annular in shape and which extends toward an inner side from an upper end of an inner wall of the cavity; a first space on an inner side of the inner protrusion; and a second space which communicates with the first space  13 a  and which is on a lower side of the first space.

Claim (Index 7):
The annular weir as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the inside diameter of said third space is gradually increased from a lower side toward an upper side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11475
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14510789', '15049866', '14400908', '10550412', '12075513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7786835810275161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.490047145651136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7498199374898781
- Mean Citation Score: 186.441012
- Max Citation Score: 198.69049
- Similarity Product: 127.85965748752058

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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