PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["060", "667000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for the recovery mechanical power from heat energy sources using a common working fluid comprising, in some embodiments, an organic refrigerant flowing through multiple heat exchangers and expanders. The distribution of heat energy from the source may be portioned, distributed, and communicated to each of the heat exchangers so as to permit utilization of up to all available heat energy. In some embodiments, the system utilizes up to and including all of the available heat energy from the source. The expanders may be operatively coupled to one or more generators that convert the mechanical energy of the expansion process into electrical energy, or the mechanical energy may be communicated to other devices to perform work.

Claim (Index 1):
A heat distribution system comprising:\n A. a single heat energy inlet; B. a first heat energy flow control valve and a second heat energy flow control valve each comprising (i) a valve inlet in heat energy receiving communication with said single heat energy inlet and (ii) a valve outlet, wherein each of said valves is operative to provide a controllable amount of heat energy from said heat energy inlet to each of the first and second valve outlets, respectively; and C. a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger in heat energy receiving communication with said first and second valve outlets, respectively; wherein said first and second heat energy flow control valves are operable to portion, distribute, and communicate (i) a first portion of heat energy from the single heat energy inlet to said first heat exchanger, and (ii) a second portion of heat energy from the single heat energy inlet to said second heat exchanger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83099
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14816046', '13949843', '13836442', '14816045', '14955064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7983045358973867
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5457628850964998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7730503708172981
- Mean Citation Score: 439.837384
- Max Citation Score: 447.1159
- Similarity Product: 365.34164805302026

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

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