PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949903
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["426", "466000"]

Abstract:
A bean roasting system includes a roasting chamber, a blower, a variable diverter and a controller. The roasting chamber, the blower and the variable diverter each is disposed at least partially within a recirculating gas flow path. The blower is configured to provide a flow stream of gas through the recirculating gas flow path. The variable diverter is configured to split the gas flow path into at least two flow paths including a treated flow path and a bypass flow path. The treated flow path includes a series arrangement of a gas heater and a catalytic converter. The variable diverter is configured to control a percentage of a flow stream of gas that is diverted into the bypass flow path. The controller is configured to activate different predetermined operating modes for the bean roasting system by controlling a state of the variable diverter and a state of the heater.

Claim (Index 13):
A bean roasting system, comprising:\n a roasting chamber having a gas inlet and a gas outlet fluidically coupled to the gas inlet by a recirculating gas flow path; a blower disposed at least partially within the recirculating gas flow path and configured to establish a flow stream of gas through the recirculating gas flow path; a variable diverter disposed at least partially within the recirculating gas flow path and configured to split the recirculating gas flow path into at least two gas flow path segments including a treated gas flow path segment and bypass gas flow path segment, the variable diverter configured to control a percentage of the flow stream of gas that is diverted to the bypass gas flow path segment; a catalytic converter disposed at least partially within the treated gas flow path segment; a heater in series with the catalytic converter and disposed at least partially within the treated gas flow path segment; a fluidic junction at which the at least two gas flow path segments are recombined before the flow stream of gas reaches the gas inlet of the roasting chamber; and a controller configured to control a state of the variable diverter and a state of the heater to provide closed loop temperature control of both the catalytic converter and the roasting chamber such that an increase in the percentage of the flow stream of gas that is diverted to the bypass gas flow path segment reduces a temperature in the roasting chamber relative to a temperature of the catalytic converter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74138
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13529838', '14172829', '14280742', '11810869', '10613696']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7289766184122085
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481660553511713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.704245011922159
- Mean Citation Score: 160.73394599999995
- Max Citation Score: 181.72757
- Similarity Product: 130.03673431341286

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test