PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["060", "320000"]

Abstract:
A method of using a thermoelectric generator for warming a transmission on a vehicle having an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes starting the internal combustion engine, thereby generating a hot exhaust gas; circulating coolant through a heating loop in fluid communication with the internal combustion engine and the thermoelectric generator; passing the hot exhaust gas through a hot-side of the thermoelectric generator and circulating the coolant through the cold-side of the thermoelectric generator, thereby transferring heat from the hot exhaust gas to the coolant and generating an electric current; and selectively powering an electric heating element with the electric current. The electric heating element is in thermal communication with a transmission fluid of the transmission. The coolant is circulated through the thermoelectric generator, by an auxiliary coolant pump powered by the electrical current, for a predetermined length of time after shutdown of the internal combustion engine.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising selectively powering an electrical heating element with the electric current generated by the thermoelectric generator, wherein the electric heating element is in thermal contact with the transmission fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15228944', '15271893', '13802050', '12944832', '13961126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.775288247548796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5327733203235978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7510367548262762
- Mean Citation Score: 302.9609660000001
- Max Citation Score: 409.44748
- Similarity Product: 287.4855136139178

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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