PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["165", "051000"]

Abstract:
An aircraft including an airframe, a propulsion system, and a heat exchanger is presented. The heat exchanger of the aircraft may include (i) a structural body including a plurality of hollow channels, (ii) a first fluid positioned within the plurality of hollow channels of the structural body, (iii) a plurality of openings positioned on a first side of the structural body and in fluid communication with the plurality of hollow channels, (iv) a wick structure positioned on the first side of the structural body, wherein the wick structure is positioned adjacent to an exterior of the plurality of hollow channels and in fluid communication with the plurality of openings, (v) an inlet to the structural body operable to provide a second fluid from an aircraft system, and (vi) an outlet from the structural body operable to receive the second fluid after receiving heat from the first fluid.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for operating a micro-lattice cross-flow heat exchanger for an aircraft, the method comprising:\n supporting an aviation induced structural load on a structural body, wherein the structural body includes a plurality of hollow channels forming two interpenetrating fluidically isolated volumes, and wherein each of the plurality of hollow channels comprise a hollow three-dimensional micro-truss comprising a plurality of hollow truss elements extending along at least three directions, and a plurality of hollow nodes interpenetrated by the hollow truss elements; positioning a first fluid within the plurality of hollow channels of the structural body, wherein the first fluid comprises a heat pipe fluid; heating a heat pipe surface coupled to the structural body, wherein the heat pipe surface is positioned adjacent to a wick structure positioned on a first side of the structural body, wherein the wick structure is in fluid communication with a plurality of openings which in turn are in fluid communication with the plurality of hollow channels; flowing a second fluid from an aircraft system, into an inlet of the structural body, external to the plurality of hollow channels and isolated from the first fluid, and out of an outlet of the structural body, wherein the second fluid comprises a cooling fluid; and transferring heat between the first fluid and the second fluid via the structural body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91379
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12757965', '15671031', '12383378', '13786367', '14042039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.835632576623998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4834005671549817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8004093756770965
- Mean Citation Score: 199.152256
- Max Citation Score: 207.42342
- Similarity Product: 143.72404667198896

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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