PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959400
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["060", "605200"]

Abstract:
In an engine, an intake duct is provided with an intercooler disposed downstream of an intake air compressor. An EGR pipe is provided with an EGR valve and an EGR cooler. An ECU determines a generation of a condensed water in the EGR cooler, the generation of the condensed water in a merging portion where a fresh air and an EGR gas merge with each other, and the generation of the condensed water in the intercooler. When it is determined that the condensed water is generated in any of these portions, the ECU performs a corresponding countermeasure for restricting the generation of the condensed water.

Claim (Index 1):
An EGR system for an internal combustion engine, comprising:\n a supercharging device configured to supply an intake air to be introduced into an internal combustion engine; an intercooler disposed downstream of an intake air compressing portion in the supercharging device, in an intake path in the internal combustion chamber, and configured to cool the intake air; an EGR pipe configured to recirculate a part of exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, as an EGR gas, to the intake path from an exhaust path; an EGR valve disposed in the EGR pipe; an EGR cooler disposed in the EGR pipe; a determination portion configured to determine whether the condensed water is generated due to cooling of the intake air in the intercooler, based on a gas temperature; and a condensed-water-restricting portion configured to perform a countermeasure for restricting the generation of the condensed water in the intercooler based on a determination result of the determination portion, wherein the condensed-water-restricting portion includes a device for reducing a degree of cooling the intake air by the intercooler, as a countermeasure against the condensed water in the intercooler.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15300902', '15036070', '15591865', '15552554', '15437606']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7533538573138929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5548053367246758
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7334990052549712
- Mean Citation Score: 315.5542779999999
- Max Citation Score: 442.67963
- Similarity Product: 431.2358083500576

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