PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16094573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "347000"]

Abstract:
A horizontal connection system including: a first holding unit, to which a first hub is fixed; a second holding unit, to which a second hub is fixed; a heat bank including a casing with a rear part secured to the first holding unit and a front part releasably connectable to the rear part; and a clamp connector secured to the first holding unit and received inside the heat bank. The parts of the casing are temporarily fixed to each other by connecting members extending between the parts on the outside thereof. The front part of the casing is provided with fastening members configured to come into engagement with associated fastening members on the second holding unit, to thereby allow the front part to be secured to the second holding unit, when the front part and the second holding unit are brought into contact with each other.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for subsea connection of a first hub arranged at an end of a first tubular member to a second hub arranged at an end of a second tubular member by means of a horizontal connection system, wherein the method comprises:\n positioning the first and second holding units in front of each other with the first hub in coarse alignment with the second hub and with the front part of the casing of the heat bank fixed to the rear part of the casing by means of connecting members extending between the front part and the rear part on the outside thereof; moving one of the first and second holding units horizontally forwards towards the other holding unit until the fastening members on the front part of the casing come into engagement with the associated fastening members on the second holding unit; cutting or releasing the connecting members in order to allow the front part of the casing to be separated from the rear part of the casing; moving one of the first and second holding units horizontally backwards away from the other holding unit in order to separate the rear part of the casing from the front part of the casing and gain access to the first and second hubs; making the first and second hubs ready for connection to each other; moving one of the first and second holding units horizontally forwards towards the other holding unit until the first hub makes contact with the second hub and the rear part of the casing makes contact with the front part of the casing; and operating the clamp connector to thereby secure the first and second hubs to each other and at the same time secure the rear and front parts of the casing to each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11630770', '15570532', '10558272', '14055152', '14897548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8105066859277709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914885976193922
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7786048770969329
- Mean Citation Score: 235.53228600000003
- Max Citation Score: 261.21298
- Similarity Product: 191.83930539837365

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

Dataset: test