PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880639
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["423", "210000"]

Abstract:
Fuel tank inerting systems and methods for aircraft are provided. The systems include a fuel tank, a first reactant source fluidly connected to the fuel tank and arranged to receive fuel from the fuel tank, a second reactant source, a catalytic reactor arranged to receive a first and second reactants from the first and second sources, respectively, to generate an inert gas that is supplied to the fuel tank to fill a ullage space of the fuel tank, a heat exchanger arranged between the catalytic reactor and the fuel tank and downstream of the catalytic reactor, the heat exchanger arranged to at least one of condense and cool an output from the catalytic reactor to separate out an inert gas and a byproduct, and a cool air source arranged to supply cool air to the heat exchanger and then the catalytic reactor to provide thermal control of the catalytic reactor.

Claim (Index 11):
Method of supplying inert gas to a fuel tank of an aircraft, the method comprising:\n supplying fuel from a fuel tank to a first reactant source; generating a first reactant within the first reactant source; mixing and directly injecting the first reactant and a second reactant supplied from a second reactant source into a catalytic reactor; catalyzing the mixed first reactant and second reactant within the catalytic reactor to generate an inert gas; at least one of cooling and condensing an output from the catalytic reactor to separate out an inert gas and a byproduct with a heat exchanger arranged between the catalytic reactor and the fuel tank; and supplying the inert gas to the fuel tank to fill a ullage space of the fuel tank, wherein a cool air source supplies cool air to the heat exchanger and then the catalytic reactor to provide thermal control of the catalytic reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58065
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15849151', '15849274', '11560290', '13464043', '11556410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.772247641324482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489340439243642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7499162815844702
- Mean Citation Score: 343.19968
- Max Citation Score: 394.51703
- Similarity Product: 355.51713571532014

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

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