PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["137", "601090"]

Abstract:
An air distribution apparatus that serves as a single sensing device for both lighting, LiFi, and HVAC functions that are operable on a single platform by building automation systems. The building automation system may be controllable by a single software system or network accessible locally on site or remotely off site. The air distribution apparatus can operate in a single zone or coupled with multiple like apparatuses for multi-zone operation. It is a high turndown, self-balancing system which allows for continuous commissioning with built-in fault diagnostic systems and that may be used as a supply, return, or exhaust system, or a combination thereof. The air distribution apparatus includes multi-stage airflow control systems that operate progressively based on unique actuation mechanisms and/or algorithms that allow for precise flow control and feedback to self-balance and commission the system.

Claim (Index 21):
A fluid flow control apparatus comprising:\n A. a low flow blade set, and a high flow blade set disposed in a support structure,\n wherein the low flow blade set includes at least one blade and the high flow blade set includes at least one blade, and \n wherein the blades are each pivotable about an associated one of a set of mutually parallel pivot axes, between:\n i. closed angular orientations where lateral edges of adjacent blades overlap and are adjacent, with no portion of the fluid flow path extending past the overlapping lateral edges of the blades of the blade sets; and \n ii. open angular orientations angularly offset from the closed orientations thereby establishing a portion of the fluid flow path extending past the blades of the blade sets; \n \n B. an actuator assembly including at least one actuator; C. a linkage assembly coupling the blades of the blades of the respective blade sets to the at least one actuator of the actuator assembly; wherein the actuator assembly is adapted to independently control the angular orientations of at least one of the blades of each of the respective blade sets whereby a flow coefficient C F  for aggregate fluid flow along the fluid flow path past the blades of the respective blade sets monotonically increases with increasing area transverse to the fluid flow path past the blades.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65169
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338166', '15225482', '15146447', '14330941', '14299098']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8665631780271135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5494634637493204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8348532065993342
- Mean Citation Score: 341.848732
- Max Citation Score: 453.96817
- Similarity Product: 370.6356558914805

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

Dataset: test