PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868474
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["126", "588000"]

Abstract:
A self-draining solar collector system includes one or more solar collector assemblies, a manifold connecting assembly, and a crossover connecting assembly. Each solar collector assembly includes a collector support subsystem, one or more heating pipes, and one or more parabolic reflectors. The manifold connecting assembly connects the heating pipes of each solar collector assembly to a manifold disposed at a lower elevation than the heating pipes of the solar collector assemblies when the solar collector assemblies are oriented in respective draining positions. The crossover connecting assembly connects the heating pipes of each solar collector assembly to a crossover pipe disposed at a higher elevation than the heating pipes of the solar collector assemblies when the solar collector assemblies are oriented in their respective draining positions.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for operating a self-draining solar collector system, comprising the steps of:\n (a) rotating one or more parabolic reflectors and respective heating pipes of each of one or more solar collector assemblies to track an incident light source; (b) rotating the one or more parabolic reflectors and the respective heating pipes of each of the one or more of solar collector assemblies to respective draining positions such that a manifold is at a lower elevation and a crossover pipe is at a higher elevation than the one or more heating pipes of the one or more solar collector assemblies; and (c) opening a purge valve in the crossover pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8913
- Patent Class: 126.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14350072', '14019472', '13642104', '13576652', '13138207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.831346915662462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4809492058349615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.796307144679712
- Mean Citation Score: 201.401156
- Max Citation Score: 221.4504
- Similarity Product: 171.45945729904176

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

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