PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["361", "699000"]

Abstract:
Devices, systems, and methods for cooling an autonomous vehicle computing system are provided. A modular cooling device can include a cooling baseplate and one or more modular heat frames. The cooling baseplate can include at least one planar cooling surface, an inlet configured to receive a cooling fluid, an outlet, and at least one cooling channel coupled between the inlet and the outlet. The at least one cooling channel can be configured to allow the cooling fluid to flow between the inlet and the outlet and provide cooling to the at least one planar cooling surface. Each modular heat frame can be configured to house at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component, be coupled parallel to the at least one planar cooling surface, and transfer heat from the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component housed by the modular heat frame to the cooling baseplate.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular cooling device for an autonomous vehicle computing system, comprising:\n a cooling baseplate, comprising:\n at least one planar cooling surface; \n an inlet configured to receive a cooling fluid; \n an outlet; and \n at least one cooling channel coupled between the inlet and the outlet, the at least one cooling channel configured to allow the cooling fluid to flow between the inlet and the outlet and provide cooling to the at least one planar cooling surface; and \n one or more modular heat frames; wherein each modular heat frame is configured to house at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component; wherein each modular heat frame comprises a heat transfer device positioned on a bottom portion of the modular heat frame, the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component housed by each respective modular heat frame positioned on top of the heat transfer device, the heat transfer device positioned between the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component and the at least one planar cooling surface; wherein each modular heat frame further comprises a heat pipe, each heat pipe comprising a first end positioned on a top portion of the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component housed by the respective modular heat frame and a second end configured to transfer heat from the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component housed by the respective modular heat frame to the heat transfer device; wherein the heat transfer device of each respective modular heat frame is further configured to be coupled parallel to the at least one planar cooling surface in a surface-mounted orientation; and wherein each modular heat frame is further configured to transfer heat from the at least one autonomous vehicle computing system component housed by the respective modular heat frame from the heat transfer device to the cooling fluid via the at least one planar cooling surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.89091
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13517871', '15836016', '15208951', '12340171', '14627513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8287777255891577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4507492839003514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7909748814202772
- Mean Citation Score: 159.93862399999998
- Max Citation Score: 165.74598999999995
- Similarity Product: 140.10795343788203

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