PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887887
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["236", "049300"]

Abstract:
Fan coil thermostats can provide energy savings by, for example, operating a fan coil system more efficiently. Fan coil systems employing such a fan coil thermostat may be more energy efficient. A fan coil system may include a fan coil that is configured for fluid communication with a source of heated fluid and/or a source of cooled fluid, a valve that controls fluid flow through the fan coil and a fan that blows air across the fan coil. The fan coil thermostat may include a controller that implements a control algorithm that calculates an error percentage value relating to a temperature difference between the current temperature and the temperature set point. The error percentage value may include a proportional term related to the temperature difference and an integral term related to the temperature difference. The controller may regulate the fan speed in accordance with the calculated error percentage.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of operating a fan coil system comprising a fan coil and a fan adapted to blow air across the fan coil, the fan having a fan speed range defined between a minimum fan speed and a maximum fan speed, the method comprising:\n obtaining a current temperature value from a temperature sensor; determining a temperature difference between the current temperature value and a temperature set point; when the temperature difference is below a maximum temperature difference:\n calculating a percentage that that the temperature difference is of the maximum temperature difference; \n calculating the percentage times the maximum fan speed; and \n operating the fan at a fan speed that is the based at least in part on the percentage times the maximum fan speed; and \n when the temperature difference is above the maximum temperature difference, operating the fan at the maximum fan speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12162
- Patent Class: 236.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15491480', '14740789', '11833703', '11833670', '15376284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7404986560915751
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937789278076021
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7158266832631778
- Mean Citation Score: 238.858202
- Max Citation Score: 273.54144
- Similarity Product: 237.395467415886

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