PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["060", "495000"]

Abstract:
A machine for driving an electric generator includes a bi-level tank which simultaneously has a higher surface level and a lower surface level. In this arrangement, after a power module has been dropped from a launch point and after its engagement with the generator, the power module is returned through the bi-level tank to the launch point for another duty cycle. To do this, the operation of a displacement device inside the bi-level tank is coordinated with the operation of a valve mechanism. Specifically, the valve mechanism alternatingly provides for an entry of the power module into the tank through the lower surface level, and for a subsequent exit from the bi-level tank through the higher surface level. During this transition, the displacement device is activated to establish and maintain the respective surface levels in the bi-level tank.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for controlling liquid levels in a bi-level tank during a three-phase duty cycle, wherein the method comprises the steps of:\n providing a bi-level tank having a higher surface level and a lower surface level; configuring the bi-level tank to receive a module of volume V m  during a first phase of the three-phase duty cycle, wherein an access port into the bi-level tank is open and a transfer port submerged inside the bi-level tank is closed to create a transfer tank between the access port and the transfer port, and wherein an open air volume V m  is established below the access port and above the lower surface level in the transfer tank for receiving the module of volume V m  into the transfer tank; beginning a second phase of the three-phase duty cycle after the module of volume V m  has entered the transfer tank by closing the access port and opening the transfer port; activating a displacement device in the transfer tank during the second phase to displace a volume V m  of liquid from the transfer tank and into a return tank as the module of volume V m  simultaneously exits from the transfer tank and into the return tank through the open transfer port; beginning a third phase of the three-phase duty cycle by closing the transfer port and reopening the access port after the module of volume V m  has left the transfer tank; and reconfiguring the transfer tank during the third phase by deactivating the displacement device to reestablish the open air volume V m  above the lower surface level in the transfer tank to continue the controlled operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986652', '15270435', '13756904', '12733908', '14845332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7167208906263606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688900455676288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6919378061204875
- Mean Citation Score: 139.624436
- Max Citation Score: 144.17465
- Similarity Product: 96.67591463502646

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

Dataset: test