PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963998
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["165", "174000"]

Abstract:
An evaporator includes a leeward upper header portion, a leeward lower header portion, a refrigerant inlet, leeward heat exchange tubes, a windward upper header portion, a windward lower header portion, a refrigerant outlet, windward heat exchange tubes, and a resistance divider. The resistance divider has at least one refrigerant passage hole and at least one communication path and is provided in the leeward upper header portion or the leeward lower header portion at a position corresponding to a first row of the leeward heat exchange tubes. The refrigerant inlet is in communication with the first row via the at least one refrigerant passage hole. The refrigerant inlet is in communication with the second row via the at least one communication path.

Claim (Index 1):
An evaporator comprising:\n a leeward upper header portion; a leeward lower header portion provided substantially parallel to the leeward upper header portion in an extending direction, the leeward upper header portion and the leeward lower header portion having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in the extending direction; a refrigerant inlet which is provided at the first side of the leeward upper header portion or the leeward lower header portion and through which refrigerant is to flow into the evaporator; leeward heat exchange tubes each of which has a longitudinal direction and which are provided between the leeward upper header portion and the leeward lower header portion to connect the leeward upper header portion and the leeward lower header portion in the longitudinal direction, the leeward heat exchange tubes comprising:\n a first row which is furthest from the refrigerant inlet in the extending direction and in which refrigerant is to flow in a first direction along the longitudinal direction, the first row including first leeward heat exchange tubes among the leeward heat exchange tubes; \n a windward upper header portion provided substantially parallel to the leeward upper header portion; a windward lower header portion provided substantially parallel to the leeward lower header portion, the windward upper header portion and the windward lower header portion having the first side and the second side; a refrigerant outlet which is provided at the first side of the windward upper header portion or the windward lower header portion and through which refrigerant is to flow out of the evaporator; windward heat exchange tubes each of which has the longitudinal direction and which are provided between the windward upper header portion and the windward lower header portion to connect the windward upper header portion and the windward lower header portion in the longitudinal direction, the windward heat exchange tubes comprising:\n a second row which is furthest from the refrigerant outlet in the extending direction and in which refrigerant is to flow in the first direction, the second row including second windward heat exchange tubes among the windward heat exchange tubes; and \n a resistance divider provided in the leeward upper header portion or the leeward lower header portion at a position corresponding to the first row, the resistance divider comprising:\n a first wall provided between the refrigerant inlet and the first row and having at least one refrigerant passage hole via which the refrigerant inlet is in communication with the first row; and \n a second wall provided between the refrigerant inlet and the second row and having at least one communication path via which the refrigerant inlet is in communication with the second row.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02273
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13067399', '13280574', '14248337', '14252779', '13948092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8896408772804778
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5829592901763556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8589727185700656
- Mean Citation Score: 463.24505
- Max Citation Score: 530.1962
- Similarity Product: 446.4100986144304

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

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