PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["060", "203100"]

Abstract:
A cusped-field thruster for a space system, wherein the cusped-field thruster comprises: at least two substantially annular permanent magnets arranged in an antipolar manner, wherein a magnetic pole piece is formed between the permanent magnets, and an anode, which comprises a permanent-magnetic material. The cusped-field thruster is configured such that a cusp is formed in a region adjacent to the anode of the cusped-field thruster.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for generating a thrust on a space system, wherein the method comprises:\n providing a cusped-field thruster according to  claim 1 ; admitting a fuel into a discharge chamber of the cusped-field thruster; and applying an electric voltage between the anode and an electron source to accelerate electrons into the discharge chamber, wherein the electrons are confined in the discharge chamber by a magnetic field, which is generated by the at least two substantially annular permanent magnets arranged in an antipolar manner and the anode, which comprises a permanent-magnetic material, and wherein the electrons in the discharge chamber ionize the fuel; wherein the ionized fuel is accelerated through an electric field, so that the thrust is generated on the space system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13203774', '11301857', '13713907', '10753183', '11926279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7502688398853631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758785364824562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7228298095450724
- Mean Citation Score: 209.13464800000003
- Max Citation Score: 230.57864
- Similarity Product: 181.6843109242153

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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