PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["062", "529000"]

Abstract:
A rack for holding flat panels containing PCM while the flat panels are conditioned and a method of conditioning the flat panels. The rack includes a frame structure defining an interior through which a conditioning air flow is directed. The interior includes a plurality of vertically spaced shelves for supporting the flat panels in a vertically spaced apart arrangement. The shelves are configured to hold the flat panels with at least a majority of their upper and lower surfaces in contact with the conditioning air flow. A conditioning method includes arranging the flat panels in a spaced apart array in the rack to create air flow channels between adjacent surfaces of the flat panels. Air is circulated between and in contact with the flat panels at a first temperature sufficient to bring the temperature of the PCM in each flat panel at least closer to a required temperature range.

Claim (Index 1):
A rack for holding flat panels containing PCM while the flat panels are conditioned, comprising:\n a frame structure including a front side, a rear side, a top side, a bottom side, and at least two additional sides to define an interior, the frame structure formed from a plurality of frame members through which a conditioning air flow is adapted to be directed, the interior including a plurality of vertically spaced shelves for supporting the flat panels in a vertically spaced apart arrangement, wherein each of the flat panels includes an upper surface and a lower surface, and the shelves are configured to hold the flat panels with at least a majority of the upper and lower surfaces in contact with the conditioning air flow, and first and second flanges spaced apart in a horizontal direction and fixed to respective frame members to define each of the vertically spaced shelves, the first and second flanges extending toward each other to define a slot for receiving at least one of the flat panels alongside edge portions thereof and creating an air space between the first and second flanges for exposing a majority of the upper and lower surfaces of the flat panel to the conditioning air flow, wherein the shelves are configured in at least first and second compartments to form respective first and second vertical arrangements of the shelves having respective first and second front openings accessed from the front side of the rack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27941
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14188395', '13028769', '13326042', '15368422', '13228736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8110170480638131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900989945215679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7789252427095886
- Mean Citation Score: 179.42777800000005
- Max Citation Score: 189.0568
- Similarity Product: 123.9367717874527

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

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