PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746353
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["405", "169000"]

Abstract:
A joining device of a continuous conduit is for changes in slope of seabeds. The continuous conduit defines a longitudinal direction substantially coinciding with the longitudinal direction of structural development of the continuous conduit. The continuous conduit has a longitudinal structural continuity and a fluidic continuity. The joining device includes a joint that includes at least one first joining branch, at least one second joining branch and at least one third joining branch. The first joining branch extends along the longitudinal direction and provides longitudinal structural and fluidic continuity of the continuous conduit and connects with a piece of the continuous conduit. The second joining branch provides longitudinal structural continuity of the continuous conduit. The third joining branch provides fluidic continuity of the continuous conduit. The second joining branch is exclusively suitable for providing the longitudinal structural continuity of the continuous conduit, and is unsuitable for providing the fluidic continuity.

Claim (Index 16):
The joining device according  claim 12 , wherein said branching tube comprises at least one curved portion;\n and/or wherein said at least one curved portion has a substantially constant radius of curvature or wherein said at least one curved portion has at least one change of concavity; and/or wherein said branching tube comprises an outer surface, suitable for facing a water mass in which said branching tube is immersed in operating conditions; and/or wherein said outer surface comprises at least one protuberance suitable for locally mitigating turbulence of said water mass in operating conditions; and/or wherein said outer surface comprises an anti-corrosion surface coating, suitable for improving resistance to corrosion of said outer surface in operating conditions; and/or wherein said outer surface comprises a coating suitable for protecting said branching tube from knocks; and/or wherein said joining device is suitable for resting on a seabed of said water mass; and/or wherein at least one from said upstream joint and said downstream joint comprises at least one flange suitable for forming a reversible, or decouplable, connection with at least one from: said branching tube and said piece of continuous conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12252776', '15559403', '10530520', '14329871', '11792743']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.712567292011451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979026313592909
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.691100825946235
- Mean Citation Score: 138.611006
- Max Citation Score: 140.09913999999998
- Similarity Product: 84.82052392835854

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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