PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032177
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["060", "659000"]

Abstract:
A thermal heat capture, storage, and exchange arrangement, includes at least one thermal exchange and storage (TXES) array, with each TXES array including one or more TXES elements that receive a fluid flow of a heat source fluid and a working fluid, with the TXES elements providing for a transfer of thermal energy between the heat source fluid and the TXES elements. A manifold system provides the working fluid to an input of the TXES elements and receives the working fluid from an output of the TXES elements. At least one heat engine operable with the TXES array extracts heat from the TXES array and converts it to mechanical energy, with the heat engine being selectively connected to the manifold system of a TXES array to pass the working fluid through the TXES elements, such that a transfer of thermal energy between the working fluid and the TXES elements occurs.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of assembling a thermal heat capture, storage, and exchange arrangement, the method comprising:\n providing at least one modular thermal exchange and storage (TXES) array having thermal storage and heat exchanging capabilities, wherein providing each of the at least one modular TXES arrays comprises: providing a desired number of modular TXES elements; arranging the desired number of modular TXES elements to form the modular TXES array; and coupling the desired number of modular TXES elements to a manifold system via piping to provide for a transfer of working fluid between the manifold system and the modular TXES elements; fluidly coupling the at least one modular TXES array to a heat source to receive a heated source fluid therefrom, with thermal energy from the heated source fluid being stored in one or more of the modular TXES elements of the at least one modular TXES array; providing at least one heat engine that is operable with the at least one TXES array to extract heat from the at least one TXES array via the working fluid and convert it to mechanical energy; and fluidly connecting each of the at least one heat engines to the manifold system of a respective modular TXES array to pass the working fluid through one or more modular TXES elements thereof, such that a transfer of thermal energy between the working fluid and the one or more respective TXES elements occurs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65574
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14919535', '13559340', '10767416', '14217080', '10168169']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6994995657171452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5407987175819867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6836294809036294
- Mean Citation Score: 209.123788
- Max Citation Score: 421.6136
- Similarity Product: 347.0224017765999

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

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