PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["060", "320000"]

Abstract:
A method of using a thermoelectric generator for warming a transmission on a vehicle having an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes starting the internal combustion engine, thereby generating a hot exhaust gas; circulating coolant through a heating loop in fluid communication with the internal combustion engine and the thermoelectric generator; passing the hot exhaust gas through a hot-side of the thermoelectric generator and circulating the coolant through the cold-side of the thermoelectric generator, thereby transferring heat from the hot exhaust gas to the coolant and generating an electric current; and selectively powering an electric heating element with the electric current. The electric heating element is in thermal communication with a transmission fluid of the transmission. The coolant is circulated through the thermoelectric generator, by an auxiliary coolant pump powered by the electrical current, for a predetermined length of time after shutdown of the internal combustion engine.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n circulating the coolant exiting the cold-side of the thermoelectric generator through the transmission heat exchanger when a temperature of the transmission fluid is less than a predetermined temperature; and bypassing the coolant exiting the cold-side of the thermoelectric generator from the transmission heat exchanger when the temperature of the transmission fluid is greater than a predetermined temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15228944', '15271893', '13802050', '12944832', '13961126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7742588931944567
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534992449125742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7503322487875853
- Mean Citation Score: 302.9609660000001
- Max Citation Score: 409.44748
- Similarity Product: 318.78820876651525

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

Dataset: test