PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905208
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["165", "173000"]

Abstract:
A header for a heat exchanger manifold comprises a header plate with a periphery, a plurality of tube openings within the header plate periphery adapted to connect to tubes of a heat exchanger core, a groove around the periphery of the header plate to receive a foot of a tank, the groove comprising inner and outer vertical walls and a lower wall disposed therebetween, and a header groove reinforcement member secured to and extending along an outer surface of the header groove and along at least a portion of the length of the header plate in a direction transverse to the header groove. The header groove reinforcement member comprises a first portion extending along at least a portion of a length of the outer vertical wall in the direction of a distal end, and a second portion extending past a proximal end of the inner vertical wall and along at least a portion of the length of the header plate. The groove reinforcement member prevents distortion of the header groove under service pressure during operation of the heat exchanger.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17  wherein the header and header groove reinforcement member are each comprised of a metal sheet, and wherein securing the header groove reinforcement member to the outer surface of the header groove comprises brazing the header groove reinforcement member to the outer surface of the header groove during core brazing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79104
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14879711', '11761691', '11298869', '10582735', '11013163']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8609748481918497
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5327795762459339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8281553209972581
- Mean Citation Score: 313.8996
- Max Citation Score: 396.53247000000016
- Similarity Product: 289.02328211720834

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