PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["432", "130000"]

Abstract:
Submerged combustion burners having improved fuel and oxidant mixing characteristics. Submerged combustion melters including the burners. Methods of using submerged combustion melters to melt glass-forming materials and produce molten glass.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a submerged combustion melter for melting a glass-forming material, the method comprising:\n providing the submerged combustion melter comprising a melt chamber having an interior at least partially defined by a melt chamber floor, at least one melt chamber sidewall, and a melt chamber roof; disposing, in the interior of the melt chamber, the glass-forming material; disposing, in the melt chamber floor, a submerged combustion burner, wherein the submerged combustion burner comprises a mixing chamber at least partially defined by a first interior sidewall, a second interior sidewall disposed opposite the first interior sidewall, an outlet port, and a bottom interior wall disposed opposite the outlet port and spanning the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall, and wherein the outlet port is communicatively coupled to the interior of the melt chamber, and wherein the mixing chamber comprises a depth dimension from the bottom interior wall to the outlet port, and wherein the mixing chamber comprises a width dimension from the first interior sidewall to the second interior sidewall, wherein width dimension is less than the depth dimension; introducing into the mixing chamber of the submerged combustion burner, from a fuel inlet, a fuel, wherein the fuel inlet penetrates the first interior sidewall at a first distance below the outlet port; introducing to the mixing chamber of the submerged combustion burner, from an oxidant inlet, an oxidant, wherein the oxidant inlet penetrates the second interior sidewall at a second distance below the outlet port; mixing, in the mixing chamber, the fuel and the oxidant to form a fuel/oxidant mixture; and ejecting into the interior of the submerged combustion melter, from the outlet port, the fuel/oxidant mixture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32
- Patent Class: 432.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14785330', '14784995', '14785324', '14785325', '15258900']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7867086317291814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5414289068566516
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7621806592419283
- Mean Citation Score: 374.314902
- Max Citation Score: 397.20877
- Similarity Product: 345.37678253078224

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

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