PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["062", "503000"]

Abstract:
A HVAC system for a vehicle has a condenser, an evaporator, a compressor, a variable accumulator comprising a piston and an actuator, and a control system operatively connected to the actuator. Fluid flows in a circuit from the condenser, to the evaporator, to the compressor, and to the condenser. The variable accumulator is arranged between the evaporator and the compressor. The control system operates the actuator to displace the piston to alter at least one characteristic of the HVAC system.

Claim (Index 1):
A HVAC system for an area of a vehicle to be heated and cooled comprising:\n a condenser; an evaporator system comprising a primary coil and a secondary coil, where the evaporator system is arranged to heat or cool the area of the vehicle to be heated and cooled; at least one valve; a compressor; a battery configured to supply power to the compressor; a variable accumulator comprising a housing, a piston arranged within the actuator chamber to define an actuator chamber, and an actuator configured to displace the piston relative to the housing; and a control system operatively connected to the actuator; wherein the variable accumulator is arranged between the evaporator and the compressor; a refrigerant fluid flows in a circuit from the condenser, to the evaporator, through the variable accumulator, to the compressor, and back to the condenser; the control system operates based on at least one characteristic associated with the refrigerant fluid\n the at least one valve to allow the evaporator to operate in\n a first configuration in which the refrigerant fluid flows only through the primary coil such that heat transfer from only the primary coil heats or cools the area of the vehicle to be heated and cooled, and \n a second configuration in which the primary coil and the secondary coil are connected to allow the refrigerant fluid flows through both the primary coil and the secondary coil such that heat transfer from both the primary and secondary coils heats or cools the area of the vehicle to be heated and cooled; and \n \n the actuator to displace the piston to vary a volume of the actuator chamber to optimize use of power supplied from the battery to the compressor when the evaporator operates in the first and second configurations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21951
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15936747', '15462130', '14642601', '14519448', '14519943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8150402732494603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4672373798686302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7802599839113773
- Mean Citation Score: 183.687742
- Max Citation Score: 188.89513
- Similarity Product: 154.0487563056779

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

Dataset: test