PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875958
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["165", "041000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus to cool a vehicle heat source are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first tank and a second tank. The first tank and the second tank are disposed on a vehicle. The second tank is in fluid communication with the first tank. An engine of the vehicle is to be supplied with fuel from at least one of the first tank or the second tank. The example apparatus also includes a cooling system disposed on the vehicle to cool the fuel flowing from the first tank to the second tank. The example apparatus further includes a heat exchanger operatively coupled to a heat source disposed on the vehicle. The fuel from the second tank is to flow to the first tank via the heat exchanger to cool the heat source.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus comprising:\n a first tank disposed on a vehicle, the first tank to hold fuel having a first temperature; a second tank disposed on the vehicle, the second tank to hold fuel having a second temperature less than the first temperature, an engine of the vehicle to be supplied with fuel from at least one of the first tank or the second tank; a first fuel line to fluidly couple the first tank and the second tank; a cooling system located between the first tank and the second tank to cool fuel flowing from the first tank to the second tank, the cooling system being interposed in the first fuel line such that the first fuel line is to fluidly couple the first tank and an inlet of the cooling system and the first fuel line is to fluidly couple an outlet of the cooling system to the second tank, the cooling system to cool the fuel flowing from the first tank to a predetermined temperature prior to the fuel entering the second tank; a second fuel line fluidly coupling to the second tank and the first tank; a heat exchanger operatively coupled to a heat source disposed on the vehicle, fuel from the second tank to flow to the first tank via the heat exchanger to cool the heat source, the heat exchanger being interposed in the second fuel line such that the second fuel line fluidly couples the second tank to an inlet of the heat exchanger and the second fuel line fluidly couples an outlet of the heat exchanger to the first tank; a first bypass disposed between the cooling system and the second tank, the first bypass to direct cooled fuel into at least one of the second tank or the heat exchanger; a second bypass disposed between the second tank and the heat exchanger, the second bypass to direct cooled fuel into at least one of a first feed tank or a second feed tank; and a third bypass disposed between the first tank and the cooling system, the third bypass to direct fuel from the first tank into at least one of the first feed tank or the second feed tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95833
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13922960', '13761081', '15044523', '14526425', '12429449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8413653805156184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5047008345661109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8076989259206676
- Mean Citation Score: 233.97657
- Max Citation Score: 316.29446
- Similarity Product: 272.9113788905836

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