PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "278000"]

Abstract:
For operating a thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) for exchanging thermal energy between a thermal transfer fluid and air, a plurality of measurement data sets are recorded in a control system ( 40 ). The measurement data sets include for a different point in time data values which define a normalized energy transfer that represents the thermal energy transferred in the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) normalized by one or more normalization variables. The control system ( 40 ) calculates for each of the measurement data sets a normalized data point defined by the normalized energy transfer. The control system ( 40 ) further determines for the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) a characteristic energy transfer curve which fits the normalized data points. Normalizing the energy transfer makes it possible to operate the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) more efficiently over a wider range of changing conditions, as saturation can be prevented using more appropriate fixed or variable thresholds.

Claim (Index 23):
A computer program product comprising a non-transient computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer program code configured to control a processor of a control system ( 40 ) for operating a thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) for exchanging thermal energy between a thermal transfer fluid, flowing through the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) in a fluid conduit ( 200 ), and air, being conducted through the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) in an air duct ( 300 ), such that the processor performs the following steps:\n recording in the control system ( 40 ) a plurality of measurement data sets, each of the measurement data sets including for a different point in time data values defining a normalized energy transfer which represents the thermal energy transferred in the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ), from the thermal transfer fluid to the air, normalized by one or more normalization variables including at least one air side variable; calculating for each of the measurement data sets a normalized data point (Pn, Sn, Ln) defined by the normalized energy transfer; and determining for the thermal energy exchanger ( 1 ) a characteristic energy transfer curve (cP, cS, cL) which fits the normalized data points (Pn, Sn, Ln).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1519
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14771002', '13885925', '14003726', '15269192', '10772762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3710504989140602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919130016944054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3831367491920947
- Mean Citation Score: 203.6257
- Max Citation Score: 245.79474
- Similarity Product: 190.2675559923076

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

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