PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["062", "094000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for conditioning air has a quantity of liquid desiccant. A first portion of a first airflow is received in a first contact volume such that it contacts a first portion of the liquid desiccant. A second contact volume is in parallel with the first contact volume and receives a second portion of the first airflow. At least a portion of a second airflow is brought into contact with a second portion of the liquid desiccant in a third contact volume. A first heat exchanger is associated with the first portion of the liquid desiccant and configured to transfer heat between the first portion of the liquid desiccant and a first medium. A second heat exchanger is associated with the second portion of the liquid desiccant and configured to transfer heat between the second portion of the liquid desiccant and a second medium.

Claim (Index 9):
Apparatus for conditioning air comprising:\n a first chamber having an inlet and an outlet for a first flow of a first fluid, the first chamber containing a first portion of a liquid desiccant for removing water from the first flow moving through the chamber, a second chamber having an inlet and an outlet for a first flow of a second fluid, the second chamber containing a second portion of the liquid desiccant for evaporating water from the desiccant to the second fluid, the second chamber in fluid communication with the first chamber such that the desiccant is capable of flowing between the first and second chambers; a third chamber having an inlet and an outlet for a second flow of the second fluid, the third chamber in parallel with the second chamber; a first heat exchanger associated with the first portion of the liquid desiccant and configured to transfer heat between the first portion of the liquid desiccant and a first medium; and a second heat exchanger associated with the second portion of the liquid desiccant and configured to transfer heat between the second portion of the liquid desiccant and the first medium, the second heat exchanger being arranged with the first heat exchanger in a fluid loop, the first medium flowing through both the first and second heat exchangers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.4
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13993478', '10468658', '13384007', '13235338', '14171951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7577100430882051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.544980936585624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7364371324379471
- Mean Citation Score: 288.623668
- Max Citation Score: 384.22238
- Similarity Product: 357.9678732139552

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

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