PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16197723
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["236", "00100B"]

Abstract:
An air distribution apparatus that serves as a single sensing device for both lighting, LiFi, and HVAC functions that are operable on a single platform by building automation systems. The building automation system may be controllable by a single software system or network accessible locally on site or remotely off site. The air distribution apparatus can operate in a single zone or coupled with multiple like apparatuses for multi-zone operation. It is a high turndown, self-balancing system which allows for continuous commissioning with built-in fault diagnostic systems and that may be used as a supply, return, or exhaust system, or a combination thereof. The air distribution apparatus includes multi-stage airflow control systems that operate progressively based on unique actuation mechanisms and/or algorithms that allow for precise flow control and feedback to self-balance and commission the system.

Claim (Index 32):
A variable fluid volume device having an integrated thermal transfer unit, comprising:\n a housing having housing dimensions; a thermal transfer device, situated in the housing, configured to modify a temperature of a fluid within the housing; a bracket configured to mount the thermal transfer device and piping elements of the thermal transfer device to the housing; and a low fluid flow (LFF) device that measures and controls a flow of a fluid through the housing, wherein the LFF device comprises:\n a damper device that facilitates measuring and controlling the flow of the fluid through the housing, wherein the damper device, when closed, prevents the fluid from flowing through the housing and, when open, provides an aperture, through which the fluid in the housing flows, having configurable aperture dimensions that are configured in response to modifying a state of the damper device, and wherein the damper device is configured to function as an orifice plate that facilitates measuring the flow based on a flow profile that is determined based on the housing dimensions and the configurable aperture dimensions; and \n a control device configured to control the state of the damper device based on upstream pressure data representative of a first fluid pressure at an upstream portion of the housing and downstream pressure data representative of a second fluid pressure at a downstream portion of the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65169
- Patent Class: 236.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16017335', '15225482', '15338166', '15146447', '14330941']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7784596465382415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.545120405644038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7551257224488213
- Mean Citation Score: 362.291886
- Max Citation Score: 387.44995
- Similarity Product: 259.6262753479421

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

Dataset: test