PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["060", "495000"]

Abstract:
A machine for driving an electric generator includes a bi-level tank which simultaneously has a higher surface level and a lower surface level. In this arrangement, after a power module has been dropped from a launch point and after its engagement with the generator, the power module is returned through the bi-level tank to the launch point for another duty cycle. To do this, the operation of a displacement device inside the bi-level tank is coordinated with the operation of a valve mechanism. Specifically, the valve mechanism alternatingly provides for an entry of the power module into the tank through the lower surface level, and for a subsequent exit from the bi-level tank through the higher surface level. During this transition, the displacement device is activated to establish and maintain the respective surface levels in the bi-level tank.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for controlling liquid levels in a bi-level tank which comprises:\n a module having a volume V m ; a bi-level tank having a lower surface level and a higher surface level; a valve mechanism including an access port located above the lower surface level and a transfer port submerged in the bi-level tank below the higher surface level, wherein the transfer port is closed when the access port is open, and the access port is closed when the transfer port is open; a displacement device mounted inside the bi-level tank below the lower surface level; an actuator for moving the displacement device between a first configuration wherein the displacement device has a volume equal to zero and a second configuration wherein the displacement device has a volume equal to V m ; and a controller connected to the actuator and to the valve mechanism for moving the displacement device from its first configuration to its second configuration after the module has been received into the bi-level tank through the open access port and after the access port is closed, and for moving the displacement device from its second configuration to its first configuration after the module has passed through the open transfer port and after the access port has been reopened and the transfer port has been reclosed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986652', '15270435', '13756904', '12733908', '14845332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7187198669356526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4597677785338097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6928246580954683
- Mean Citation Score: 139.624436
- Max Citation Score: 144.17465
- Similarity Product: 104.14761789844631

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

Dataset: test