PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883878
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["700", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method of controlling opening of a valve in an HVAC system is provided. The method includes controlling the opening of a six-way-valve according to a default control mode in dependence of a default sensor signal, the six-way-valve fluidicly coupling an inlet side and an outlet side of the heat exchanger alternatively with a first fluidic circuit in a first default control mode or a second fluidic circuit in a second default control mode; selecting a selected default control mode from the first default control mode and the alternative second default control mode; determining, while controlling the valve in the selected default control mode, whether the sensor signal is faulty; and switching, in case the signal is faulty, to controlling the opening according to a first fallback control mode or an alternative second fallback control mode, where the opening is controlled independently of the faulty sensor signal.

Claim (Index 11):
The control device according to  claim 8 , wherein the processor ( 14 ) is further configured to control the opening of the six-way-valve using as the default control mode a power control mode, with an amount of energy per time, E, that is exchanged by the heat exchanger ( 2 ) being controlled to a set point energy per time value in the power control mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77193
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14771002', '13885925', '14232759', '15358131', '15686637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3922963035646901
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5022240415165278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4032890773598739
- Mean Citation Score: 202.110832
- Max Citation Score: 242.06142000000003
- Similarity Product: 165.92049958404067

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