PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["073", "861000"]

Abstract:
A hydronic system and method of use that will maintain normal system operating pressure while also reliably detecting even very small fluid losses in any closed loop fluid heat transfer system is described. The system includes a controller having clock or timing functionality in communication with one or more pressure sensors and a fluid supply valve that provides one or more notifications when the pressure drops below predetermined levels during predetermined periods of time. Depending on the nature of the pressure loss, the system has the capability of opening a fluid supply valve to provide make up fluid and increase system pressure.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of detecting a leak in an hydronic system, the method comprising:\n providing a hydronic heating or cooling system, the system including,\n one or more pressure sensors, the one or more sensors configured to sense when a system pressure drops below or rises above at least first and second pressure set points, \n a circulator pump, \n a controller, the controller being configured to control the operation of the hydronic system responsive to pressure changes indicated by the one or more pressure sensors; \n a fluid supply valve coupled to a fluid supply, \n an expansion tank, \n at least one of a heating appliance and cooling appliance, \n conduit fluidly coupling at least the circulator pump, the fluid supply valve, the expansion tank and the heating or cooling appliance, and \n a fluid contained in the system; \n periodically after each passing of a predetermined first period of time, opening the fluid supply valve for a predetermined second period of time and closing the fluid supply valve after the expiration of the second period of time; periodically sampling system pressure at regular intervals; providing a first notification indicating the system pressure dropped below a first pressure set point; and providing a second notification when the system pressure drops below the second pressure set point at any time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49296
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16085383', '15486389', '15202370', '15358131', '15182484']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6841550181040624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807375194014711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6638132682338033
- Mean Citation Score: 176.79521400000004
- Max Citation Score: 187.0511
- Similarity Product: 132.89686354057787

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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