PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763707
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["165", "173000"]

Abstract:
It is intended to suppress occurrence of a crack in a fixed portion of a tube with respect to a tank. A plurality of tubes ( 4 A to  4 D) are fixed to a sidewall ( 9 ) in a state in which they penetrate through the sidewall ( 9 ) via respective ones of a plurality of through-holes ( 9 b ) formed in the sidewall ( 9 ) in such a manner as to be arrayed in a line along a longitudinal direction. A heat exchanger ( 1 ) comprises a protective member ( 5 ) fixed to the sidewall ( 9 ) to protect a nearest tube ( 4 A) nearest to an end wall ( 10 ) among the plurality of tubes ( 4 A to  4 D), wherein the protective member ( 5 ) has a barrier portion ( 13 ) interposed between the end wall ( 10 ) and an outlet-side end portion ( 4 b ) of the nearest tube ( 4 A) disposed inside the sidewall ( 9 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A heat exchanger for cooling a target fluid, comprising:\n an inlet-side tank having an inlet port for leading the target fluid into the inlet-side tank therethrough; an outlet-side tank having an outlet port for leading the target fluid out of the outlet-side tank therethrough; and a plurality of tubes each extending from the inlet-side tank to the outlet-side tank, wherein: at least one of the inlet-side tank and the outlet-side tank comprises: a sidewall extending along a given axis and surrounding the axis; and an end wall closing an opening at an end of the sidewall in a longitudinal direction of the tank along the axis; the plurality of tubes are fixed to the sidewall in a state in which they penetrate through the sidewall via respective ones of a plurality of through-holes formed in the sidewall in such a manner as to be arrayed in a line along the longitudinal direction, and the heat exchanger further comprises a protective member fixed to the sidewall to protect a nearest tube nearest to the end wall among the plurality of tubes, the protective member having a barrier portion interposed between the end wall and an end portion of the nearest tube disposed inside the sidewall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54795
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10979142', '11376880', '10469383', '12864356', '10587396']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8535392806240826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751712247801888
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8157024750396932
- Mean Citation Score: 213.651958
- Max Citation Score: 224.75063
- Similarity Product: 179.54409036983014

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

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