PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885700
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "085000"]

Abstract:
A system for treating the water for a cooling tower uses a primary treatment system, a flow control valve, a tower basing, and a side-stream filtration system to remove unwanted qualities from the water that flows through the cooling tower. The primary treatment system is a filtration system that has a back-flushing media filter and a water softener. Similarly, the side-stream filtration system is a filtration system used to agitate the water within the tower basin, and to remove biological materials and sediment. Raw water is supplied to the primary treatment system, is filtered, and then passes through the flow control valve before being deposited into the tower basin. The majority of the water in the tower basin flows into a connected chiller. However, a portion of the water in the tower basin is passed through the side-stream filtration system before being deposited back into the tower basin.

Claim (Index 12):
A system for treating the water for a cooling tower comprises:\n a primary treatment system; a flow-control valve; a tower basin; a side-stream filtration system; an electronic control unit (ECU); a secondary treatment system; the primary treatment system comprises a back-flushing media filter and a water softener; the side-stream filtration system comprises a suction outlet, a recirculation filter, and a turbulence-inducing nozzle; the tower basin comprises a basin body, an interior cavity, a water-supply inlet, a chiller-supply outlet, and a sewer line outlet; the interior cavity being positioned within the basin body; the water-supply inlet, the chiller-supply outlet, and the sewer line outlet being in fluid communication with the interior cavity; the back-flushing media filter being in fluid communication with the flow-control valve through the water softener; the water softener being in fluid communication with the water-supply inlet through the flow-control valve; the suction outlet being in fluid communication with the interior cavity; the turbulence-inducing nozzle being in fluid communication with the interior cavity; the suction outlet being in fluid communication with the turbulence-inducing nozzle through the recirculation filter; the secondary treatment system being in fluid communication with the chiller-supply outlet; and the ECU being electronically connected to the flow control valve, the recirculation filter, and the secondary treatment system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09818272', '11490534', '10764757', '15282550', '15751856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8059760134341982
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4773287815423394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7731112902450125
- Mean Citation Score: 200.862182
- Max Citation Score: 213.41064
- Similarity Product: 170.6629670165062

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

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