PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16012927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "246000"]

Abstract:
A flow cell including a flow channel through which a sample fluid and a sheath fluid flow, a sample flow channel that introduces the sample fluid into the flow channel, and at least one sheath flow channel that introduces the sheath fluid into the flow channel. The flow channel includes a flow merging section where the sample flow channel and the sheath flow channel merge, a flattened section that is disposed downstream of the flow merging section, that is formed in line with one wall face of wall faces facing across the flow merging section, and that is shallower in depth than the flow merging section, and a tapered section that connects the flow merging section with the flattened section and that gradually decreases in depth on progression downstream. The sample flow channel introduces the sample fluid into the flow merging section along the one wall face of the wall faces facing across the flow merging section, and the sheath flow channel introduces the sheath fluid into the flow merging section from a direction such that the sheath fluid flows so as to press the sample fluid against the one wall face.

Claim (Index 6):
A measurement device comprising:\n the flow cell of  claim 1 ; an imaging mechanism that is disposed so as to face the flow cell where the sheath fluid presses the sample fluid against the one wall face, and that images the sample fluid flowing in the flattened section; a sample supply mechanism that supplies the sample fluid to the sample flow channel; and a sheath supply mechanism that supplies the sheath fluid to the sheath flow channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.36667
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13315052', '13968962', '10979848', '14308499', '15037747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.694535441845693
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794310907649899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6730250067376228
- Mean Citation Score: 188.051732
- Max Citation Score: 199.56236
- Similarity Product: 148.44601826409578

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