PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771967
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["114", "125000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically managing the ballast water of a dual-hulled ship and, more specifically, to an apparatus for automatically managing the ballast water of a ship, the apparatus dividing the structure of an integrated ballast water tank into ballast water tanks of a multi-layered structure, and filling each ballast water tank with seawater, so as to perform the original function thereof of maintaining the water-line by means of the ballast water, and having a structure and a device so as to utilize the seawater, used as cooling water, residential water, water for miscellaneous use, and the like, as the seawater of the ballast water tanks, thereby integrally managing the usage of the seawater of the ship, and continuously and successively changing the seawater of the ballast water tanks while the ship is sailing.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the ballast water tanks of a multi-layered structure are constructed by modification of void tanks to ballast water tanks so that the ballast water tanks can contain more water than the conventional ballast water and installing additional water level sensors and bypass valves on each of the modified ballast water tanks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11357709', '10583703', '10572211', '12448112', '14429921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7520204875070342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140056477958581
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7282190035359166
- Mean Citation Score: 242.547314
- Max Citation Score: 272.0712
- Similarity Product: 195.1688985604763

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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