PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895304
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["114", "330000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are an improved nozzle for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), and a method for operating the same. The nozzle includes a first rigid member operatively coupled to a UUV steering mechanism. The nozzle also has a second rigid member, coupled to the first rigid member by a flexible bellows according to a configurable operating angle. The nozzle does not extend beyond a bounding surface when stored but does when deployed. Water traversing the first rigid member and contacting the second rigid member produces a reactive force according to the configurable operating angle. Simultaneous and independent control of the volume of fluid traversing several such nozzles in the UUV, and their respective orientations and operating angles, permits automatic station-keeping or navigation according to another guidance objective.

Claim (Index 1):
An expandable, steerable nozzle for a device, the nozzle comprising:\n a first rigid member mounted to the device and operatively coupled to a steering mechanism of the device; a second rigid member; and a flexible bellows coupling the first rigid member to the second rigid member according to a configurable operating angle, so that a fluid traversing the first rigid member and contacting the second rigid member produces a reactive force according to the operating angle; wherein the flexible bellows has a first configuration in which the nozzle does not extend beyond a bounding surface, and a second configuration in which the nozzle extends beyond the bounding surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79221
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13923104', '12511704', '13589321', '13179947', '10684143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7510797070279179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746611289046892
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7234378492155951
- Mean Citation Score: 131.380708
- Max Citation Score: 133.8611
- Similarity Product: 89.25300730013252

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

Dataset: test