PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959400
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["060", "605200"]

Abstract:
In an engine, an intake duct is provided with an intercooler disposed downstream of an intake air compressor. An EGR pipe is provided with an EGR valve and an EGR cooler. An ECU determines a generation of a condensed water in the EGR cooler, the generation of the condensed water in a merging portion where a fresh air and an EGR gas merge with each other, and the generation of the condensed water in the intercooler. When it is determined that the condensed water is generated in any of these portions, the ECU performs a corresponding countermeasure for restricting the generation of the condensed water.

Claim (Index 2):
The EGR system for an internal combustion engine according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the intercooler causes an I/C coolant to flow therethrough and cools the intake air through a heat exchange between the I/C coolant and the intake air; the I/C coolant flows through a different circulation passage from a circulation passage through which the engine coolant for cooling the internal combustion engine circulates, and is maintained at a lower temperature than that of the engine coolant; and the condensed-water-restricting portion raises, in temperature, the I/C coolant flowing into the intercooler, within a range which prevents a temperature of the I/C coolant from being higher than that of the engine coolant, or reduces an amount of the coolant flowing into the intercooler, as a countermeasure against the condensed water in the intercooler.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15300902', '15036070', '15591865', '15552554', '15437606']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7768500562521437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5512127650788977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7542863271348191
- Mean Citation Score: 315.5542779999999
- Max Citation Score: 442.67963
- Similarity Product: 383.47847607320193

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