PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16115522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["062", "150000"]

Abstract:
A preferred embodiment utilizes the waste heat from a refrigerant cycle to aid in the removal of condensate from a refrigerated case used primarily by grocery stores. Certain embodiments use a heating element to boil off condensate or a pump to remove the condensate. Another embodiment utilizes a wicking element and a shroud that directs hot air from the condenser through the wick thereby increasing the condensate evaporation rate. Yet another embodiment utilizes the hot gas tube from the refrigeration system routed through the bottom of the condensate tray to pre-heat the condensate to accelerate evaporation. Alternative embodiments combine certain features to create even more efficient system such as a heating element used with the wick system or the hot gas system used with the wick system. In some embodiments, a mold and mildew inhibitor is added to the condensate to maintain cleanliness.

Claim (Index 7):
The refrigerated case as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising heating means to heat the condensate collected in the condensate pan.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82927
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060461', '14938305', '14287941', '15097391', '11052133']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.820192716220849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5707435273048752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7952477973292517
- Mean Citation Score: 274.728038
- Max Citation Score: 489.37048
- Similarity Product: 377.5870946556425

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

Dataset: test