PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980930
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["429", "414000"]

Abstract:
A control unit of a fuel cell system issues an instruction to open/close the drain valve after placing a drain valve provided for a gas liquid separator in an open state and discharging water from the gas liquid separator. Therefore, when the drain valve is opened/closed, the drain valve vibrates.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of controlling a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system comprising:\n a fuel cell; a fuel exhaust gas discharge channel including\n a gas liquid separator configured to separate water contained in a fuel exhaust gas discharged from an anode of the fuel cell; and \n a drain valve configured to discharge the water from the gas liquid separator, \n the method comprising the steps of: discharging the water from the gas liquid separator by opening the drain valve; vibrating the drain valve to remove the water attached to the drain valve; and closing the drain valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45946
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11250039', '11262010', '14940659', '14240121', '14237116']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8447572885701902
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746157506931399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8077431347824852
- Mean Citation Score: 191.638962
- Max Citation Score: 201.10065
- Similarity Product: 163.21790828127266

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

Dataset: test