PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["137", "487500"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to an electronic flow controller ( 30 ) for applications in the HVAC field, said electronic flow controller comprising a one-piece valve body ( 31 ) which is penetrated by a flowing medium. The valve body is divided into a valve portion ( 31 a ) and a flow measurement portion ( 31 b ) along the flow direction, wherein a valve element ( 32 ) is arranged in the valve section ( 31 a ) for the control of flow, wherein said valve element can be controlled from the outside via a valve spindle ( 33 ), and wherein a measurement path ( 36 ) is formed in the flow measurement portion ( 31 b ) for determining the flow rate by means of ultrasound. In order to achieve a compact arrangement and a greatly simplified assembly, accesses ( 34 a, b ) for coupling and/or outcoupling ultrasound into or from the measuring path ( 36 ) are formed on the valve body ( 31 ) in the region of the flow measurement portion ( 31 b ). A control unit ( 62 ) is placed on the valve body ( 31 ), which comprises first means ( 27, 28 ) for actuating the valve element ( 32 ), said first means being in engagement with the valve spindle ( 33 ), and second means ( 29 a, b ) for emitting and/or receiving ultrasound signals which are acoustically coupled to the accesses ( 34 a, b ) for coupling and/or outcoupling ultrasound.

Claim (Index 9):
The electronic flow controller according to  claim 1 , characterized in that in the control unit ( 62 ,  63 ,  68 ) the first means ( 27 ,  28 ,  39 ) for actuating the valve element ( 12 ,  22 ,  32 ,  42 ) and the second means ( 29 a,b ,  48 a,b ) for transmitting or receiving ultrasonic signals are hard-wired to an electronic control system, thereby forming a control loop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75758
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10512108', '15496078', '13133415', '10584500', '10302361']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8326269150395808
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4620793950874263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955721630443653
- Mean Citation Score: 138.132914
- Max Citation Score: 145.8967
- Similarity Product: 101.33504552980664

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

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