PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["062", "440000"]

Abstract:
An outdoor unit for a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes: a fan; a bellmouth that covers a periphery of the fan; a casing that internally houses the fan and the bellmouth so that airflow faces upward and that has a top end edge having a flat shape; and a diffuser surface disposed below a top end edge of the casing but above a top end of the bellmouth and on the outer side relative to the top end of the bellmouth in plan view, wherein the diffuser surface is inclined to extend outward away from the rotation axis of the fan as getting upward. The casing has a plurality of side surfaces that cover the sides of the bellmouth. At least one of the side surfaces has a recessed shape toward the bellmouth so that a gap with the top end edge of the bellmouth is reduced.

Claim (Index 1):
An outdoor unit ( 2 ,  202 ) for a refrigeration cycle apparatus ( 1 ) comprising:\n a fan ( 15 ); a bellmouth ( 72 ) that covers a periphery of the fan; a casing ( 40 ) that internally houses the fan and the bellmouth so that airflow faces upward and that has a top end edge having a flat shape ( 84 ,  89 ,  94 ,  99 ); and a diffuser surface ( 91 ,  91 a ,  96 ,  291 ) disposed below a top end edge of the casing but above a top end of the bellmouth and on the outer side relative to the top end of the bellmouth in plan view, wherein the diffuser surface ( 91 ,  91 a ,  96 ,  291 ) is inclined to extend outward away from the rotation axis ( 75 ) of the fan as getting upward; wherein:\n the casing has a plurality of side surfaces ( 93 ,  98 ,  80 ,  85 ) that cover the sides of the bellmouth; and \n at least one of the side surfaces ( 80 ,  85 ) has a recessed shape ( 81 ,  86 ) toward the bellmouth so that a gap with the top end edge of the bellmouth is reduced.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10959
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14899384', '16097852', '15562052', '15546689', '14408142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8349503917322946
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4971326263613058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8011686151951958
- Mean Citation Score: 231.050162
- Max Citation Score: 242.59021
- Similarity Product: 170.19815730228305

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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