PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["366", "177100"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a low cost surge tank design for pressure swing adsorption plants that does not contain internal structures, achieves good mixing and is 15-20% less expensive than the conventional designs. The surge tank is characterized by having a first inlet located in the upper quadrant of said surge tank and a second inlet located in the lower quadrant of said surge tank, wherein said inlets configured to fluidly couple the interior of said surge tank with the exterior of said surge tank; and wherein said first and second inlets are tangentially configured to allow flow to enter said surge tank in diametrically opposite directions.

Claim (Index 5):
The surge tank of  claim 4  wherein each of said inlets is tangentially angled approximately 30\u00b0 degrees from the alignment axis of said surge tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68657
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10412606', '10185181', '11554517', '12348062', '12084143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7840723294708903
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4784827816826029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7535133746920616
- Mean Citation Score: 156.837332
- Max Citation Score: 173.45605
- Similarity Product: 113.8227994003892

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

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