PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892579
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["361", "624000"]

Abstract:
The present inventors have recognized that electrical units for Motor Control Centers (MCC's) can be improved to allow testing in a partially disconnected state while providing ingress protection through the use of sealing members without decreasing the size of the electrical unit. In particular, a full size electrical unit, able to advantageously accommodate a full array of electrical components like most other electrical units, can be partially withdrawn from an MCC for testing while still providing protection from the possibility of shock, gases and/or other hazards by way of sealing members such as gaskets and/or plates. Such sealing members can be mounted to the electrical unit to effectively seal the electrical unit with respect to the MCC when partially withdrawn.

Claim (Index 12):
A Motor Control Center (MCC),\n a section forming a shell around a device mounting volume for supporting an electrical unit, the electrical unit comprising: a support structure for supporting an electrical component configured to receive first and second pluralities of signals from the MCC; a front wall and opposing sidewalls attached to the support structure, the front wall, the opposing sidewalls and the support structure forming an interior volume of the electrical unit containing the electrical component; an actuating mechanism for selectively moving the support structure with respect to the MCC, the actuating mechanism having a handle protruding through the front wall, the handle being moveable between a plurality of positions including: a first position corresponding to a connected position in which the support structure is fully inserted in the MCC with the first and second pluralities of signals being connected to the MCC; a second position corresponding to a test position in which the support structure is partially inserted in the MCC with the first plurality of signals being disconnected from the MCC and the second plurality of signals being connected to the MCC; and a third position corresponding to a disconnected position in which the support structure is partially inserted in the MCC with the first and second pluralities of signals being disconnected from the MCC; and sealing members attached to the opposing sidewalls in areas external to the interior volume of the electrical unit, wherein the sealing members form barriers in gaps leading to an interior volume of the MCC between the opposing sidewalls and the MCC to provide arc fault protection when the support structure is partially inserted in the MCC in the second and third positions, wherein the sealing members are configured to form the barriers when the electrical unit is partially withdrawn from the MCC in at least one of the second and third positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71053
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15871509', '15785854', '12913902', '14150831', '15023837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8005749053703767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862435383425181
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7691417686675908
- Mean Citation Score: 178.72036599999996
- Max Citation Score: 196.9511
- Similarity Product: 142.31339849013685

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

Dataset: test