PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757350
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["060", "645000"]

Abstract:
An Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) device and method for transforming heat from a heat source into mechanical energy. The ORC includes a closed circuit containing a two phase working fluid. The circuit comprises a liquid pump for circulating the working fluid consecutively through an evaporator which is configured to be placed in thermal contact with the heat source; through an expander for transforming the thermal energy of the working fluid into mechanical energy; and through a condenser which is in thermal contact with a cooling element. The expander is situated above the evaporator. The fluid outlet of the evaporator is connected to the fluid inlet of the expander by a raiser column which is filled with a mixture of liquid working fluid and of gaseous bubbles of the working fluid, which mixture is supplied to the expander.

Claim (Index 27):
The ORC according to  claim 19 , wherein the ORC circuit is provided with a bypass bridging the inlet and the outlet of the liquid pump and comprising a valve with a control for keeping the valve closed during normal operating conditions of the ORC and opening the valve in case the liquid pump would not be operational due to failure or other reasons.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16176
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13586673', '15463709', '14345306', '14955064', '15842341']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7554685588393374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032469090488302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7302463938602867
- Mean Citation Score: 273.737214
- Max Citation Score: 282.1473
- Similarity Product: 172.60073690201642

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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