PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862262
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["062", "434000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle air conditioning system connector is provided. The connector includes: a first supply port, a second supply port, a first return port, a second return port, a first branch port and a second branch port.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of extending a vehicle air conditioning system, wherein the vehicle air conditioning system comprises:\n a refrigerant pump; an evaporator; a refrigerant supply line couplable to an inlet of a first evaporator and in fluid communication with an outlet of the refrigerant pump; and a refrigerant return line couplable to an outlet of the first evaporator and in fluid communication with an inlet of the refrigerant pump, wherein the method comprises: providing a vehicle air conditioning system connector, coupling the vehicle air conditioning system connector to the evaporator such that a second supply port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector is in fluid communication within the inlet of the evaporator and a second return port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector is in fluid communication with the outlet of the evaporator; coupling the refrigerant supply line to a first supply port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector; coupling the refrigerant return line to a first return port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector; and arranging an additional evaporator such that an inlet of the additional evaporator is in fluid communication with a first branch port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector and an outlet of the additional evaporator is in fluid communication with a second branch port of the vehicle air conditioning system connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04762
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16099539', '11675026', '11411165', '10927937', '13273273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8476565044495051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787747137781118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8107683253823658
- Mean Citation Score: 203.30704800000004
- Max Citation Score: 209.82281
- Similarity Product: 167.18386713615058

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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