PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["073", "861270"]

Abstract:
A method and corresponding device are provided for determining a flow speed in a fluid conduit. The fluid conduit is provided with first, second and third ultrasonic transducers, wherein respective connection lines between transducers extend outside of a symmetry axis of the fluid conduit. First and second measuring signals are applied to the first ultrasonic transducer and received at the second and the third ultrasonic transducer, respectively. The measuring signals comprise a respective reversed signal portion with respect to time of a response signal. Respective first and second response signals are measured and the flow speed is derived from at least one of the first and second response signals.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for determining a flow speed of a fluid in a fluid conduit comprising:\n providing the fluid conduit with a fluid that has a predetermined velocity with respect to the fluid conduit providing the fluid conduit with a first ultrasonic transducer, a second ultrasonic transducer and a third ultrasonic transducer,\n wherein respective connection lines between the first ultrasonic transducer, the second ultrasonic transducer and the third ultrasonic transducer extend outside of a symmetry axis of the fluid conduit, \n applying a first measuring signal to the first ultrasonic transducer, and measuring a first response signal of the first measuring signal at the second ultrasonic transducer, applying a second measuring signal to the first ultrasonic transducer, measuring a second response signal of the second measuring signal at the third ultrasonic transducer,\n wherein the first measuring signal and the second measuring signal respectively comprise a reversed signal portion with respect to time of a response signal of a corresponding arbitrary waveform generator signal or of a signal derived therefrom, \n deriving a flow speed of the fluid from at least one of the first response signal and the second response signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15843552', '15496930', '15366823', '12800081', '15496833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7434144106616144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.558379053511857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7249108749466386
- Mean Citation Score: 319.433676
- Max Citation Score: 428.72928
- Similarity Product: 420.8345480156708

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