PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "584000"]

Abstract:
Heat pump system ( 100 ) comprising a heat medium circuit ( 210,220,230,240,250,310,320,410,420,430,440,450,460 ) in turn comprising at least three heat exchanging means ( 314,315,315,422,433,452 ) between the heat medium and a respective heat source or sink selected from outdoor air, a water body, the ground, indoorair, pool water or tap water, a valve means ( 311,312,313,421,431,451 ) arranged to selectively direct the heat medium to at least two of said heat exchanging means, and a control means ( 500 ). The invention is characterized in that the heat pump system comprises temperature sensors ( 314 a, 314 b; 315 a, 315 b; 316 a, 316 b; 423,424,425;432,434,435 ) both upstream and downstream of at least one of said heat exchanging means, in that the system determines, based upon temperature measurement values comprising at least onevalue read from said sensors, to what heat exchanging means the heat medium is to be directed, and in that when heat medium is not directed to a certain heat exchanging means a measured temperature value is read upstream and downstream of the certain heatexchanging means, and in that an alert is set off in case the values differ by more than a predetermined value. The invention also relates to a method.

Claim (Index 1):
Heat pump system comprising a heat medium circuit in turn comprising\n at least three heat exchanging means arranged to transfer thermal energy between the heat medium and a respective heat source or sink selected from outdoor air, a water body, the ground, indoor air, pool water, tap water or a topmost ground layer, a valve means arranged to selectively direct the heat medium to at least two of said heat exchanging means, and a control means arranged to control said valve means, wherein the heat pump system comprises respective temperature sensors both upstream and downstream of at least one of said heat exchanging means, wherein the control means is arranged to, based upon temperature measurement values comprising at least one value read from said sensors, determine to what heat exchanging means the heat medium is to be directed, wherein when heat medium is not directed to a certain heat exchanging means the control means is arranged to read, repeatedly over time, a measured temperature value upstream and downstream of the certain heat exchanging means, and to set off an alert in case a difference between the read temperatures increases by more than a predetermined value between a reference reading, measured previously but after the disconnection of the delivery of heat medium to the heat exchanger in question, and a later reading, measured after the reference reading while the heat exchanger still does not receive any heat medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33673
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14374913', '15141298', '13266247', '13273273', '15029309']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6368408655924704
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492489659242657
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6224057449574891
- Mean Citation Score: 199.205486
- Max Citation Score: 208.17029
- Similarity Product: 164.3081077479124

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

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