PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16065045
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["062", "159000"]

Abstract:
When charging a refrigerant circuit with refrigerant, a control component starts a heating refrigerant charging operation that is performed by switching the refrigerant circuit to a heating cycle state and performs the heating refrigerant charging operation until a predetermined heating refrigerant charging completion condition is met. Thereafter, the control component switches to a cooling refrigerant charging operation that is performed by switching the refrigerant circuit to a cooling cycle state and performs the cooling refrigerant charging operation until a refrigerant charging completion condition where the refrigerant circuit is charged with a prescribed quantity of the refrigerant is met.

Claim (Index 1):
An air conditioning apparatus comprising:\n a refrigerant circuit that is configured as a result of an outdoor unit having an outdoor heat exchanger and plural indoor units having indoor heat exchangers being interconnected via a liquid refrigerant communication pipe and a gas refrigerant communication pipe, the refrigerant circuit being switchable to a cooling cycle state, which causes the outdoor heat exchanger to function as a radiator of a refrigerant and causes the indoor heat exchangers to function as evaporators of the refrigerant, and a heating cycle state, which causes the outdoor heat exchanger to function as an evaporator of the refrigerant and causes the indoor heat exchangers to function as radiators of the refrigerant; and a control component that controls devices configuring the outdoor unit and the plural indoor units, wherein when charging the refrigerant circuit with the refrigerant, the control component starts a heating refrigerant charging operation that is performed by switching the refrigerant circuit to the heating cycle state, performs the heating refrigerant charging operation until a predetermined heating refrigerant charging completion condition is met, thereafter switches to a cooling refrigerant charging operation that is performed by switching the refrigerant circuit to the cooling cycle state, and performs the cooling refrigerant charging operation until a refrigerant charging completion condition where the refrigerant circuit is charged with a prescribed quantity of the refrigerant is met.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75676
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16065028', '15518785', '14894151', '13822365', '14443473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8206457454162759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5952035585977844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7981015267344268
- Mean Citation Score: 364.675448
- Max Citation Score: 491.2906
- Similarity Product: 480.9586372293352

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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