PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992779
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["165", "148000"]

Abstract:
A heat exchanger and a method for additively manufacturing the heat exchanger are provided. The heat exchanger includes a housing defining a heat exchange plenum having a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet separated along a transverse direction. A plurality of heat exchange banks pass through the heat exchange plenum between a top side and a bottom side of the housing substantially along a vertical direction, each of the heat exchange banks comprising a plurality of heat exchange tubes. A plurality of collector manifolds are positioned at the top side and the bottom side of the housing, each collector manifold defining one or more connecting ports providing fluid communication between adjacent heat exchange banks.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger, the method comprising:\n depositing a layer of additive material on a bed of an additive manufacturing machine; and selectively directing energy from an energy source onto the layer of additive material to fuse a portion of the additive material and form a heat exchanger defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical, lateral, and transverse directions being mutually perpendicular to each other, the heat exchanger comprising:\n a housing defining a heat exchange plenum having a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet separated along the transverse direction; \n a plurality of heat exchange banks passing through the heat exchange plenum between a top side and a bottom side of the housing substantially along the vertical direction, each of the heat exchange banks comprising a plurality of heat exchange tubes; and \n at least one collector manifold providing fluid communication between adjacent heat exchange banks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17857
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15653613', '13401618', '14183443', '15912478', '15652717']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8241366053307623
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5138233279759419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7931052775952803
- Mean Citation Score: 255.750914
- Max Citation Score: 323.93915
- Similarity Product: 282.3669214965522

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