PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16407776
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["285", "146300"]

Abstract:
A flexible pipe joint has a body and an annular elastomeric flexible element flexibly coupling an extension pipe to the body and operable to pivot the extension pipe with respect to the body. The flexible pipe joint also has an annular flexible boot operable to thermally or chemically insulating the annular elastomeric flexible element from the fluid flowing through a lumen of the flexible pipe joint. The annular flexible boot encircles the lumen, and the annular flexible boot has a first annular end attached to the extension pipe and a second annular end mounted so that pivoting of the extension pipe with respect to the body causes a flexing of the annular flexible boot, and a majority of the annular flexible boot has a shape conforming to shape of neighboring components of the flexible pipe joint.

Claim (Index 1):
A flexible pipe joint comprising:\n a body; an attachment member mechanically coupled to the body operable to attach the body to a first segment of a pipeline; an extension pipe extending from the body and operable to attach the body to a second segment of the pipeline, and at least one annular elastomeric flexible element flexibly coupling the extension pipe to the body to permit articulation of the flexible pipe joint whereby the extension pipe is operable to pivot with respect to the body; wherein the attachment member and the extension pipe define a lumen through the flexible pipe joint for fluid from the pipeline to flow through the flexible pipe joint, and the at least one annular elastomeric flexible element encircles the lumen; and an annular flexible boot operable to thermally or chemically insulate the at least one annular elastomeric flexible element from the fluid flowing through the flexible pipe joint, wherein the annular flexible boot encircles the lumen, and the annular flexible boot has a first annular end attached to the extension pipe and a second annular end mounted so that pivoting of the extension pipe with respect to the body causes a flexing of the annular flexible boot and a majority of the annular flexible boot has a shape conforming to a shape of an annulus formed by neighboring components of the flexible pipe joint, wherein the annular flexible boot includes a metal layer operable to prevent diffusion of invasive gas from the lumen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71154
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15167982', '12196230', '13218402', '10767587', '12036738']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157313884897514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4745375937842444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816120090192007
- Mean Citation Score: 339.291038
- Max Citation Score: 482.11356
- Similarity Product: 475.2336521487237

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

Dataset: test