PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768667
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["062", "129000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an outdoor unit for an air conditioner and the like that provide notification of whether maintenance is needed for an outdoor heat exchange unit in appropriate timing. The outdoor unit for the air conditioner includes: a compressor; an outdoor heat exchange unit through which a refrigerant flows by driving of the compressor; an outdoor fan that includes an outdoor fan motor and is installed near the outdoor heat exchange unit; and a control unit that provides notification of whether maintenance is needed for the outdoor heat exchange unit based on an airflow resistance during an outdoor air-sending operation in which the outdoor fan is driven to send outdoor air into the outdoor heat exchange unit while the compressor is stopped. This makes it possible to provide the notification of whether the maintenance is needed for the outdoor heat exchange unit in appropriate timing.

Claim (Index 2):
The outdoor unit according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the control unit uses a value of a current or electric power of the outdoor fan motor as a value reflecting the airflow resistance, and when the value during the outdoor air-sending operation is out of a predetermined normal range, the control unit provides notification that the maintenance is needed for the outdoor heat exchange unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57627
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14118572', '15031942', '14372092', '14381894', '14535406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8558414676701962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164051547746568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8218978363806422
- Mean Citation Score: 282.5388200000001
- Max Citation Score: 294.4882
- Similarity Product: 196.78605968345403

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

Dataset: test