PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752654
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["062", "160000"]

Abstract:
A heat pump system includes a compressor, indoor heat exchanger, outdoor heat exchanger, and expansion valve. A main flow control device fluidly couples a discharge line to the outdoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is in a cooling mode, and fluidly couples the discharge line to the indoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is in a heating mode. An intermediate heat exchanger is configured to receive working fluid from the outdoor heat exchanger in a cooling mode and from the indoor heat exchanger in a heating mode. The intermediate heat exchanger is configured to superheat or sub-cool a working fluid therein. A secondary flow control device is configured to control a directional flow of working fluid between the indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor heat exchanger and the intermediate heat exchanger. A controller is operably coupled to the main and secondary flow control devices.

Claim (Index 1):
A reversible heat pump system, comprising:\n a compressor configured to receive a working fluid from a suction line and provide compressed working fluid to a discharge line: an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor heat exchanger; a main flow control device configured to fluidly couple the discharge line to the outdoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is operated in a cooling mode, and to fluidly couple the discharge line to the indoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is operated in a heating mode; an expansion valve; a intermediate heat exchanger configured to receive a liquid working fluid from the outdoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is operated in a cooling mode and to receive a liquid working fluid from the indoor heat exchanger when the heat pump system is operated in a heating mode, wherein the intermediate heat exchanger is configured to superheat or sub-cool a working fluid therein; a secondary flow control device configured to control a directional flow of working fluid between the indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor heat exchanger, and the intermediate heat exchanger; and a controller operably coupled to the main flow control device and the secondary flow control device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09804
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11630080', '11841009', '11027394', '10942724', '11630081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8423598764733415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504335825066311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8085574713326386
- Mean Citation Score: 279.97704
- Max Citation Score: 282.23676
- Similarity Product: 209.85608379956244

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