PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["318", "504000"]

Abstract:
A multilevel converter includes single phase configurations. A single phase configuration has a first half-bridge (HB) module, a second HB module separated by a first capacitor coupled to a DC link, and a neutral point clamped (NPC) module clamped to the first HB module and the second HB module. Further, the single phase configuration has a first individual switching device and a second individual switching device, the first individual switching device operably connected to the first HB module and the NPC module, and the second individual switching device operably connected to the second HB module and the NPC module. The converter further includes a power output assembly comprising multiple phases and providing multiple-phase alternating (AC) power, wherein the single phase configuration supplies power to one of the multiple phases of the power output assembly.

Claim (Index 39):
The electric drive system of  claim 38 , further comprising a pulse width (PWM) modulation controller operably coupled to each of the individual switching devices and the switching devices of first and second HB modules and the NPC module for controlling switching events of the switching devices by pulse width modulation, wherein the switching devices are switched at a same switching frequency.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 318.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12618810', '14151142', '14886496', '12615566', '14153103']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6784379120852708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021905454966145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6608131754264053
- Mean Citation Score: 261.374354
- Max Citation Score: 275.42963
- Similarity Product: 204.19305465481875

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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