PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["062", "196100"]

Abstract:
An air conditioner and a control method for an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include a compressor, a flow switch installed at an outlet side of the compressor, a first guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an outdoor heat exchanger, a second guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an indoor unit, a third guide pipe extending from the outdoor heat exchanger to the indoor unit, a bypass passage extending from the second guide pipe to the third guide pipe to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the second guide pipe to be bypassed to the third guide pipe or to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the third guide pipe to be bypassed to the second guide pipe, and a bypass valve installed on the bypass passage.

Claim (Index 13):
The method according to  claim 12 , wherein, when the operation load of the compressor is greater than the operation load of the indoor unit by a predetermined value, the opening degree of the bypass valve is increased, and wherein, when a difference between the operation load of the compressor and the operation load of the indoor unit is equal to or less than the predetermined value, the opening degree of the bypass valve is maintained or decreased.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12710886', '13742870', '13756913', '10643911', '14681299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8752603405348602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5401080273517415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8417451092165483
- Mean Citation Score: 373.05962
- Max Citation Score: 402.1074
- Similarity Product: 267.44521819367407

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