PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741703
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["165", "173000"]

Abstract:
In a heat exchanger including a header tank which includes a header plate through which end portions of a number of flat tubes placed in parallel are inserted, and a header body fitted to the header plate, the header plate and the header body are temporarily assembled easily and accurately, and joined more accurately by brazing. The header body is formed in a gutter-like shape, and positioned with both ends thereof on an opening side in contact with both ends of a major axis on an opening end surface of each flat tube inserted into the header plate.

Claim (Index 4):
A heat exchanger, comprising at least one heat exchanger unit comprising a respective header including a respective header plate and a respective header body, and a respective plurality of flat tubes received in the respective header, wherein\n the header plate has a plurality of openings arranged along a length of the header plate and spaced from one another in a longitudinal direction of the header plate and has a U-shaped cross-section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, with the openings being at a bottom of the U-shape, and each of the openings is configured to receive an end portion including a free end of a respective one of the flat tubes, the header body is gutter-shaped and is received in the U-shape of the header plate with longitudinal edges of the gutter-shape facing into the U-shape, and each of the flat tubes has a major axis and a minor axis and the flat tubes are received in the openings with the major axis of each of the flat tubes extending in a widthwise direction of the header plate and the free end of each of the flat tubes at respective ends of the major axis thereof contacting respective ones of the longitudinal edges of the header body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7931
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10807722', '10582735', '15577144', '10583764', '12925963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8453060080783183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.484530545463625
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.809228461816849
- Mean Citation Score: 225.775336
- Max Citation Score: 233.29886
- Similarity Product: 173.0842219005656

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

Dataset: test