PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["060", "651000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for the recovery of mechanical power from heat energy sources via multiple heat exchangers and expanders receiving at least a portion of heat energy from a source. The distribution of heat energy from the source may be portioned, distributed, and communicated to the input of each of the heat exchangers so as to permit utilization of up to all available heat energy. In some embodiments, the system receives heat energy from more than one source at one or more temperatures. Mechanical energy from expansion of working fluid in the expanders may be communicated to other devices to perform useful work or operatively coupled to one or more generators to convert the mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for generating power from a flow of fresh air heated by compression, the method comprising:\n A. receiving a input flow of fresh air heated by compression; B. using more than one air flow control valves in heated air flow receiving communication with said input flow of heated fresh air to portion, distribute, and communicate more than one controllable portions of said heated fresh air to more than one heat exchanger via adjustment of any of said more than one air flow control valves; C. directly or indirectly communicating heat energy from at least one of said more than one heat exchanger to at least one organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system comprising an ORC working fluid, at least one expander, at least one condenser, and at least one working fluid pump; and D. communicating said heat energy to said ORC working fluid and expanding said heated ORC working fluid in said at least one expander to generate mechanical power.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14955064', '14816045', '14816046', '13949843', '13836442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.786332382365815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.59517475205479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672166193347125
- Mean Citation Score: 447.201718
- Max Citation Score: 557.8949
- Similarity Product: 494.4785259191036

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

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