PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047365
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["366", "118000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for preparing compound dispersoids of hydrophobic nanoparticles and surfactants, comprises a water supply pipeline, a compounding mixing pipeline and an aggregating pipeline; the compounding mixing pipeline comprises an ultrasonic dispersion instrument and a liquid storage tank connected in series into a loop, and a second plunger pump allowing unidirectional circulation of materials is arranged between the ultrasonic dispersion instrument and the liquid storage tank; the water supply pipeline is connected to the top of the ultrasonic dispersion instrument; and the aggregating pipeline is connected to a discharge end of the liquid storage tank.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for preparing a complex dispersion of hydrophobic nanoparticles and surfactants with a dispersion apparatus,\n wherein the dispersion apparatus comprises a water supply pipeline, a complex mixing pipeline and a material collecting pipeline;\n the complex mixing pipeline comprises an ultrasonic disperser and a fluid reservoir that are connected in series, and a first plunger pump for one-way circulation of materials is provided between the ultrasonic disperser and the fluid reservoir; \n the water supply pipeline is connected with a top of the ultrasonic disperser; \n the material collecting pipeline is connected with a material outlet of the fluid reservoir; \n the ultrasonic disperser comprises an instrumental barrel, a first ultrafiltration membrane and a second ultrafiltration membrane are disposed in the instrumental barrel up and down in succession which divide the instrumental barrel into three cavities, which are: a first cavity with a first ultrasonic emission probe disposed therein, a second cavity with a second ultrasonic emission probe disposed therein and a third cavity; a wall of the instrumental barrel is provided with a through surfactant delivery pipe connected to the first cavity; and the wall of the instrumental barrel is provided with a through hydrophobic nanoparticles delivery pipe connected to the second cavity; \n wherein the method comprises the following steps:\n (1) the first and second ultrafiltration membranes of suitable aperture sizes are selected according to experimental requirements, the second ultrafiltration membrane is mounted on a second snap ring first, and then the first ultrafiltration membrane is mounted on a first snap ring; \n (2) a top cap of the ultrasonic disperser is fastened down, surfactants are added into the first cavity of the ultrasonic disperser through the surfactant delivery pipe, and hydrophobic nanoparticles are added into the second cavity of the ultrasonic disperser through the hydrophobic nanoparticle delivery pipe; the surfactant delivery pipe and the hydrophobic nanoparticle delivery pipe are closed after delivery; \n (3) water in a water reservoir is injected into the ultrasonic disperser by the first plunger pump; (4) after the water is injected, the hydrophobic nanoparticles and the surfactants are enabled to carry out one-way circulation in the complex mixing pipeline by a second plunger pump, and the first and second ultrasonic emission probes are started; during the process of water circulation in the ultrasonic disperser, at first, water is mixed with the surfactants in a upper room of the ultrasonic disperser, a dispersion solution of surfactants and water is formed under ultrasonic cavitation effects of the first ultrasonic emission probe and enters the second cavity through the first ultrafiltration membrane, part of the solution that meets not the standard of the first ultrafiltration membrane size is detained in the first cavity without entering the second cavity until the particle size thereof meets the standard of the first ultrafiltration membrane size after ultrasonic cavitation by the first ultrasonic emission probe; (5) the dispersion solution of surfactants and water entering the second cavity is mixed with the hydrophobic nanoparticles; (6) the complex dispersion of hydrophobic nanoparticles dispersed into suitable sizes and surfactants enters into the third cavity through the second ultrafiltration membrane, and then is cycled to the ultrasonic disperser through the fluid reservoir and the second plunger pump; (7) steps (1) to (6) are repeated and cycled to form the complex dispersion of hydrophobic nanoparticles and surfactants; (8) the complex dispersion of hydrophobic nanoparticles and surfactants is cycled to the fluid reservoir; (9) connection between the material collecting pipeline and the fluid reservoir is enabled, the dispersion is collected to a complex dispersion reservoir by a third plunger pump.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08163
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14917875', '15635359', '10815957', '15636810', '12489761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7473229274911964
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6415217770178117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.736742812443858
- Mean Citation Score: 231.71639200000004
- Max Citation Score: 614.4739
- Similarity Product: 604.3068813601612

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

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