PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15776785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["062", "003200"]

Abstract:
A thermoelectric temperature-control unit may include a first contact plate, a second contact plate, and at least one plate-shaped thermoelectric transducer. The thermoelectric transducer may have a first transducer side and a second transducer side facing away from the first transducer side. The thermoelectric transducer may be coupled to the first contact plate on the first transducer side and coupled to the second contact plate on the second transducer side. At least one of the first contact plate and the second contact plate may include a coupling zone on a respective inner side. A circumference of the coupling zone may be surrounded by a groove. A heat-conducting material may be arranged in the groove and along the coupling zone, and may directly contact the i) respective inner side and ii) one of the first transducer side and the second transducer side facing the respective inner side.

Claim (Index 15):
A temperature-control device comprising:\n a cooling region couplable in a heat-transmitting fashion to a heat sink one of i) directly and ii) indirectly via a cooling path; a heating region couplable in a heat-transmitting fashion to a heat source one of i) directly and ii) indirectly via a heating path; and at least one thermoelectric temperature-control unit integrated into a heat-transmitting coupling between the cooling region and heating region, the at least one temperature-control unit including: a first contact plate having a first inner side; a second contact plate having a second inner side facing the first inner side; at least one plate-shaped thermoelectric transducer having a first transducer side coupled in a heat-transmitting fashion to the first contact plate and a second transducer side coupled in a heat-transmitting fashion to the second contact plate, the second transducer side facing away from the first transducer side; wherein at least one of the first inner side and the second inner side includes a coupling zone in a region of the at least one thermoelectric transducer and a groove extending around the coupling zone circumferentially; wherein a heat-conducting material is arranged within the groove and along the coupling zone such that the heat-conducting material contacts i) the at least one of the first inner side and the second inner side and ii) an associated transducer side of the first transducer side and the second transducer side coupled to the at least one of the first inner side and the second inner side; and wherein the first contact plate is coupled in a heat-transmitting fashion to the cooling region and the second contact plate is coupled in a heat-transmitting fashion to the heating region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.20408
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13109069', '15316901', '14654010', '14604496', '14316032']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8061638353492091
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4633111733496295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7718785691492512
- Mean Citation Score: 154.21219399999995
- Max Citation Score: 163.5619
- Similarity Product: 128.6826300872207

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

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