PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959998
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["416", "21000R"]

Abstract:
A cooling tower fan hub having a ring and a disc in which in which hollows and recesses are opened in the ring and/or in the disc in order to decrease fan natural frequencies and avoid excitation by the several kind of loads that affect a fan during operation. The number, size and shape of the hollows can be adjusted to tune the fan natural frequencies around the original value.

Claim (Index 6):
A cooling tower axial fan hub comprising:\n a first disc configured to connect to a central boss; a second disc bolted to said first disc through connecting elements of a plurality of fan blades, said connecting elements sandwiched between said first disc and said second disc; a seal disc attached to said second disc to inhibit flow return; said first and second discs comprising a plurality of corresponding and regularly spaced fan blade connecting segments/spokes, said first disc segments/spokes extending distally an equal distance from a central boss connection, and said first disc segments/spokes extending distally an equal distance from an open center core, each pair of adjacent spokes defining a V-shaped space there-between. ( FIGS. 5 and 6 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55319
- Patent Class: 416.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12956108', '12691383', '14078453', '14424781', '14424862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7459806230555522
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4336700565087806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7147495664008751
- Mean Citation Score: 185.474692
- Max Citation Score: 189.18033
- Similarity Product: 131.62070324913378

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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