PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018765
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["165", "165000"]

Abstract:
A counterflow heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between a first fluid flow at a first pressure and a second fluid flow at a second pressure includes a first fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet fluidly coupled to the first fluid inlet via a core section, a second fluid inlet, and a second fluid outlet fluidly coupled to the second fluid inlet via the core section. The core section includes a plurality of first fluid passages configured to convey the first fluid flow from the first fluid inlet toward the first fluid outlet, and a plurality of second fluid passages configured to convey the second fluid flow from the second fluid inlet toward the second fluid outlet such that the first fluid flow exchanges thermal energy with the second fluid flow at the core section. Each first fluid passage of the plurality of first fluid passages has a circular cross-section.

Claim (Index 8):
The counterflow heat exchanger of  claim 1 , further comprising a second inlet header disposed between the second fluid inlet and the core section, the second inlet header including one or more second inlet vanes to direct the second fluid flow from the second fluid inlet to the plurality of second fluid passages.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.48889
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15156382', '15923561', '14972463', '15612055', '15172677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8487387550533789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4779706977612779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8116619493241688
- Mean Citation Score: 233.61472999999995
- Max Citation Score: 243.73088
- Similarity Product: 204.25907265979768

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

Dataset: test