PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["417", "441000"]

Abstract:
A pulsation dampening apparatus for providing a selectively variable orifice size fir a reciprocating compressor system includes a rotatable conical cage and a fixed conical cage, the conical cages being aligned along a central axis to firm a central cylindrical port. The conical cages each include at least one window or port and have mating contours allowing the conical cages to rotatably slide over one another, allowing their respective ports to be selectively aligned in any configuration to create any desired effective orifice size. In one embodiment, each of the conical cages include a plurality of ports which can be selectively aligned, the relative alignment of the ports determining the effective orifice size of the pulsation dampening apparatus.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 3 , the bevel gear drive further including an indicator sleeve assembly that fittingly engages the shaft, the indicator sleeve assembly including an indicator insert that moves linearly along the shaft when the shaft is rotated, and wherein the shaft includes markings along the linear path of the indicator insert, the markings relating to the position of the rotatable outer conical cage relative to the position of the fixed inner conical cage and therefore indicating the Beta ratio setting of the apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81159
- Patent Class: 417.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14602515', '15051233', '14865265', '10816874', '14564716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020884097374344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5443283788570227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7763124066493933
- Mean Citation Score: 213.808574
- Max Citation Score: 396.5891
- Similarity Product: 288.8883093583941

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