PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892214
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["417", "053000"]

Abstract:
A control unit includes a first connector configured to connect a proportional pressure regulator to a positive pressure supply and a second connector configured to connect the proportional pressure regulator to a negative pressure supply. The control unit further includes at least one sensor configured to detect an amount of air flow (volume per unit of time), positive or negative, within an air flow line connected to an output of the proportional pressure regulator, and a third connector configured to connect the air flow line to an air side of a diaphragm. Additionally, the control unit includes a controller programmed to control at least an opening and closing function of the proportional pressure regulator to attain a desired amount of air flow (volume per unit of time), positive or negative, within the air flow line.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of actuating a diaphragm pump comprising:\n selecting a volume or size of a diaphragm pump; selecting a volume of a fluid to be displaced by the diaphragm pump over a given period of time; selecting a duration of a pumping operation, which together with the desired volume of fluid to be displaced over said duration, generates a performance profile appropriate for a specific application; actuating the pumping operation by alternating a supply of positive and negative air flow in an air flow line connected at one end to an air side of the diaphragm pump and connected at an opposite end to an output of an air flow regulator; monitoring an amount of air flow within the air flow line to maintain or alter a volume of air flowing per unit of time within the air flow line; optionally, monitoring a position of a diaphragm of the diaphragm pump at one or both ends of its displacement; and optionally, altering the volume of air flowing per unit of time within the air flow line to influence either the position of the diaphragm at one or both ends of its displacement or a duration of a partial or full cycle of displacement or both.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74074
- Patent Class: 417.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640641', '12451335', '10635301', '12249668', '15468546']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7905103363796563
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787992563963319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7593392283813238
- Mean Citation Score: 194.28439
- Max Citation Score: 203.90988
- Similarity Product: 153.75398231321094

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

Dataset: test