PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["062", "196100"]

Abstract:
An air conditioner and a control method for an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include a compressor, a flow switch installed at an outlet side of the compressor, a first guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an outdoor heat exchanger, a second guide pipe extending from the flow switch to an indoor unit, a third guide pipe extending from the outdoor heat exchanger to the indoor unit, a bypass passage extending from the second guide pipe to the third guide pipe to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the second guide pipe to be bypassed to the third guide pipe or to allow at least a portion of the refrigerant in the third guide pipe to be bypassed to the second guide pipe, and a bypass valve installed on the bypass passage.

Claim (Index 18):
An air conditioner, comprising:\n an indoor unit; and an outdoor unit, the outdoor unit including:\n a compressor that compresses refrigerant; \n a flow switch provided at an outlet of the compressor; \n a first guide pipe that extends from the flow switch to an outdoor heat exchanger; \n a second guide pipe that extends from the flow switch to the indoor unit; \n a third guide pipe that extends from the outdoor heat exchanger to the indoor unit; \n a bypass flow passage that extends from the second guide pipe to the third guide pipe such that at least a portion of the refrigerant in the second guide pipe is bypassed to the third guide pipe or at least a portion of the refrigerant in the third guide pipe is bypassed to the second guide pipe; and \n a bypass valve installed in the bypass flow passage to adjust the amount of refrigerant flowing through the bypass flow passage, wherein the outdoor heat exchanger includes: \n a first heat exchanging portion connected to the first guide pipe; and \n a second heat exchanging portion provided below the first heat exchanging portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12710886', '13742870', '13756913', '10643911', '14681299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8601418326607374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5421483005242974
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8283424794470935
- Mean Citation Score: 373.05962
- Max Citation Score: 402.1074
- Similarity Product: 342.04348529305463

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

Dataset: test