PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["062", "228100"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an outdoor unit for an air conditioner that can be constructed at low cost while reducing risk of malfunction. The outdoor unit has a compressor; a fan motor; a compressor driver board having a compressor inverter circuit and a compressor driver circuit; and a fan driver board having a fan inverter circuit and fan driver circuit. The compressor driver board has at least either: a shared control circuit that feeds a first switching signal for a compressor to the compressor driver circuit and feeds a second switching signal for a fan to the fan driver circuit; or a shared power source circuit that steps down a first DC voltage to a second DC voltage and supplies the second DC voltage to the compressor driver circuit and to the fan driver circuit.

Claim (Index 1):
An outdoor unit for an air conditioner, comprising:\n (i) a compressor that compresses refrigerant; (ii) a heat exchanger that transfers heat between the refrigerant and outdoor air; (iii) a fan motor that drives a fan for blowing air to the heat exchanger; (iv) a compressor driver board comprising: a compressor inverter circuit having a plurality of first switching elements for the compressor, the plurality of first switching elements being used for generating an AC voltage from a first DC voltage to drive the compressor, and a compressor driver circuit that amplifies a first switching signal for the compressor and feeds the amplified first switching signal to the plurality of first switching elements; and (v) a fan driver board comprising: a fan inverter circuit having a plurality of second switching elements for the fan, the plurality of second switching elements being used for generating an AC voltage from the first DC voltage to drive the fan motor, and a fan driver circuit that amplifies a second switching signal for the fan and feeds the amplified second switching signal to the second plurality of switching elements, wherein the compressor driver board further has at least either: a shared control circuit that feeds the first switching signal to the compressor driver circuit and feeds the second switching signal to the fan driver circuit, or a shared power source circuit that steps down the first DC voltage to a second DC voltage and supplies the second DC voltage to the compressor driver circuit and to the fan driver circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16089095', '12318059', '14733601', '12310627', '12289619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.841763371578391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899208910389532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8065791235244472
- Mean Citation Score: 235.645686
- Max Citation Score: 257.6416
- Similarity Product: 214.56033893890373

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