PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["073", "861270"]

Abstract:
A method and corresponding device are provided for determining a flow speed in a fluid conduit. The fluid conduit is provided with first, second and third ultrasonic transducers, wherein respective connection lines between transducers extend outside of a symmetry axis of the fluid conduit. First and second measuring signals are applied to the first ultrasonic transducer and received at the second and the third ultrasonic transducer, respectively. The measuring signals comprise a respective reversed signal portion with respect to time of a response signal. Respective first and second response signals are measured and the flow speed is derived from at least one of the first and second response signals.

Claim (Index 17):
A device for measuring a flow speed of a fluid in a fluid conduit with a travel time ultrasonic flow meter, comprising\n a first connector, a first ultrasonic clamp-on transducer which is connected to the first connector, a second connector, a second ultrasonic clamp-on transducer which is connected to the second connector,\n a portion of the fluid conduit the first ultrasonic clamp-on transducer being mounted to the fluid conduit portion at a first location, \n and the second ultrasonic clamp-on transducer being mounted to the conduit portion at a second location, \n wherein a connection line between the first ultrasonic clamp-on transducer and the second clamp-on ultrasonic transducer extends outside of a symmetry axis of the fluid conduit \n a transmitting unit for sending arbitrary waveform generator signals and for sending measuring signals, a receiving unit for receiving response signals, a processing unit for deriving a measuring signal from an invalid signal, wherein the derivation of the inverted signal comprises reversing a signal portion of a response signal of a corresponding arbitrary waveform generator signal or of a signal derived therefrom with respect to time,\n and wherein the processing unit, the transmitting unit and the receiving unit are operative to apply the measuring signal to the first connector, to receive a response signal of the first measuring signal at the second connector, and to derive a flow speed of the fluid from the response signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15843552', '15496930', '15366823', '12800081', '15496833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7435684736473566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5580150672805089
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7250131330106717
- Mean Citation Score: 319.433676
- Max Citation Score: 428.72928
- Similarity Product: 417.2503335617637

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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