PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["165", "096000"]

Abstract:
A self-cleaning metal hydride heat recovery system comprising a thermally insulated housing partitioned into at least two thermally insulated chambers, each chamber enclosing a metal hydride reactor assembly containing a regenerating, high-temperature metal hydride alloy, an ambient air inlet adapted to receive an ambient air stream into the housing to be fed to at least one of the two thermally insulated chambers, a fluid recirculation circuit configured to recirculate an exhaust stream as received from an exhaust source, the fluid recirculation circuit comprises a mixer adapted to mix a portion of a recirculation stream and the exhaust stream to provide a resultant stream, fluid stream switching means coupled to the mixer and adapted to switch flow of the resultant stream and the ambient air stream in a cyclic manner, flow regulating means provided downstream of the metal hydride reactor assemblies, and an exhaust outlet.

Claim (Index 1):
A regeneration system for a metal hydride heat pump, said system comprising:\n a thermally insulated housing partitioned into first and second thermally insulated chambers, said first chamber enclosing a first metal hydride reactor assembly and said second chamber enclosing a second metal hydride reactor assembly, each of said metal hydride reactor assemblies containing a regenerating, high-temperature metal hydride alloy; an ambient air inlet adapted to receive an ambient air stream into said housing to be fed to at least one of said first and second metal hydride reactor assemblies enclosed within corresponding thermally insulated chambers; a fluid recirculation circuit configured to recirculate an exhaust stream as received from an exhaust source, said fluid recirculation circuit comprises:\n a mixer adapted to mix a portion of said recirculation stream and said exhaust stream to provide a resultant stream having a temperature, intermediate of the temperature of said exhaust stream and the temperature of said recirculation stream; \n fluid stream switching means coupled to said mixer and adapted to switch flow of said resultant stream as received from said mixer and said ambient air stream in a cyclic manner in a series of half-cycles of operation wherein in one half-cycle of operation, said resultant stream is fed to said first metal hydride reactor assembly in a first direction and said ambient air stream is fed to said second metal hydride reactor assembly in a second direction opposite to said first direction and in a subsequent half-cycle of operation, said resultant stream is fed to said second metal hydride reactor assembly in said first direction and said ambient air stream is fed to said first metal hydride reactor assembly in said second direction; \n flow regulating means provided downstream of said metal hydride reactor assemblies; and \n an exhaust outlet for leading away a portion of said recirculation stream from said housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15753494', '10679583', '12548526', '13637609', '15367038']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393933929876328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746238415028237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8029164378391519
- Mean Citation Score: 197.713868
- Max Citation Score: 211.01578
- Similarity Product: 162.50321392221332

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