PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["062", "196100"]

Abstract:
An air conditioner and a control method for an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include a compressor, a flow switch installed at an outlet side of the compressor, a first guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an outdoor heat exchanger, a second guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an indoor unit, a third guide pipe extending from the outdoor heat exchanger to the indoor unit, a bypass passage extending from the second guide pipe to the third guide pipe to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the second guide pipe to be bypassed to the third guide pipe or to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the third guide pipe to be bypassed to the second guide pipe, and a bypass valve installed on the bypass passage.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of controlling an air conditioner, the method comprising:\n driving a compressor to perform a cooling operation or a heating operation; enabling refrigerant to flow to an outdoor heat exchanger or an indoor unit according to an operation mode of a flow switch installed at an outlet side of the compressor; controlling an opening degree of a bypass valve such that at least a portion of refrigerant passing through a first heat exchanging portion of the outdoor heat exchanger or refrigerant to be introduced into the indoor unit flows to a bypass flow passage; and sensing an operation load of the compressor and an operation load of the indoor unit to adjust the opening degree of the bypass valve, wherein the bypass flow passage extends from a second guide pipe extending from the flow switch to the indoor unit to a third guide pipe extending from the outdoor heat exchanger to the indoor unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12710886', '13742870', '13756913', '10643911', '14681299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.860181246183417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5420388944753496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8283670110126102
- Mean Citation Score: 373.05962
- Max Citation Score: 402.1074
- Similarity Product: 340.1544892444253

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

Dataset: test