PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["296", "190090"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide airflow apparatus for a vehicle comprising: an airflow duct extending rearwardly from a front region of said vehicle, the airflow duct having an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet; a cooling duct, separate from the airflow duct, the cooling duct having a cooling inlet and a cooling outlet, wherein the airflow outlet is in proximity to the cooling outlet such that, in use, airflow through said airflow outlet influences airflow through said cooling outlet, the cooling outlet and/or the airflow outlet is in a bonnet of the vehicle and, in use, airflow exits the airflow outlet substantially parallel said bonnet.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of modifying aerodynamic performance and simultaneously cooling one or more components of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising an airflow duct having an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet, a cooling duct having a cooling inlet and a cooling outlet, a first deployable closure panel adapted and arranged to close the cooling duct when in a deployed position and to open the cooling duct when in a retracted position, and a second deployable closure panel adapted and arranged to close the airflow duct when in a deployed position and to open the airflow duct when in a retracted position, the method comprising:\n moving at least one of the first and second deployable closure panels to one of a deployed position in which the at least one of the first and second closure panels is positioned to close at least one of the airflow duct and the cooling duct and a retracted position in which the at least one of the first and second closure panels is moved to open the at least one of the airflow duct and the cooling duct, wherein the moving is performed in dependence on a determination that an operating parameter associated with the vehicle has satisfied at least one predetermined criterion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62222
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15501834', '15501832', '14465082', '13163934', '11767993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7971235641243064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4617553109879209
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.763586738810668
- Mean Citation Score: 192.027782
- Max Citation Score: 212.33788
- Similarity Product: 148.25250794498922

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

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