PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["123", "090110"]

Abstract:
A valve assembly that provides reliable opening and closing valves at specified times despite changing performance characteristics of the valve is disclosed. The valve assembly includes a controllable valve selectively actuatable to control flow of a fluid therethrough, with the controllable valve having a variable valve open/close response time. The valve assembly also includes a plurality of sensors configured to measure current operational parameters of the controllable valve and/or the fluid and a valve controller programmed to process valve timing control instructions generated by an external source, process inputs from the plurality of sensors regarding the measured operational parameters of the controllable valve and/or the fluid, and provide an actuation signal to the controllable valve based on the valve timing control instructions and the inputs from the plurality of sensors, so as to control a timing of an actuation of the controllable valve.

Claim (Index 16):
A compressor-expander (CE) system comprising:\n a CE engine driven by a CE engine shaft; and one or more valve assemblies configured to control the flow of one or more pressurized fluids or gasses to drive rotation of the CE engine shaft; wherein each of the one or more valve assemblies comprises a microcontroller that operates to:\n receive valve timing control instructions generated by a CE engine controller; \n receive inputs from a plurality of sensors positioned on or adjacent a valve of the valve assembly, the inputs comprising current operational parameters of the valve and/or the pressurized fluids or gasses measured by the plurality of sensors; \n determine a timing adjustment to apply to the valve timing control instructions based on the inputs; and \n generate and provide an actuation signal to the valve with the timing adjustment included therein, so as to control a timing of the actuation of the valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15055138', '10949574', '14064290', '10838902', '12950474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7210815782162208
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4527773288418518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6942511532787838
- Mean Citation Score: 158.164776
- Max Citation Score: 160.57271
- Similarity Product: 125.05769390988888

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

Dataset: test