PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["290", "054000"]

Abstract:
A pumped storage hydropower apparatus includes a housing and at least one pump disposed within the housing. The at least one pump is configured to operate in a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation based on an operation condition including at least one of a time or a price of electrical power from a remote electrical power source. In the first mode of operation, the at least one pump receives a first flow of water from a first water storage unit, transports the first flow to a second water storage unit, and generates electrical power for transmission to the remote electrical power source. In the second mode of operation, the at least one pump receives a second flow of water from the second water storage unit, and transports the second flow to the first water storage unit using electrical power from the remote electrical power source.

Claim (Index 1):
A pumped storage hydropower system, comprising:\n a first water storage unit storing a first volume of water at a first elevation; a second water storage unit storing a second volume of water at a second elevation less than the first elevation; a housing; a power generation system including at least one pump disposed within the housing and an electrical generator, the at least one pump fluidly coupled to the first water storage unit and the second water storage unit to transport water between the first water storage unit and the second water storage unit, the electrical generator operatively coupled to the at least one pump, the electrical generator configured to receive electrical power from and transmit electrical power to a remote electrical power source; and a control circuit configured to control operation of the power generation system in a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation based on an operation condition, wherein the operation condition includes at least one of a time or a price of the electrical power received from the remote electrical power source, wherein in the first mode of operation, the control circuit causes the at least one pump to receive a first flow of the first volume of water from the first water storage unit, transport the first flow to the second water storage unit, and drive the electrical generator to generate electrical power for transmission to the remote electrical power source using the first flow, and in the second mode of operation, the control circuit causes the electrical generator to drive the at least one pump, using electrical power received from the remote electrical power source, to receive a second flow of the second volume of water from the second water storage unit and transport the second flow to the first water storage unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05769
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14993945', '15832274', '13779818', '12416962', '12383569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5980849552295764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4618365928550975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5844601189921285
- Mean Citation Score: 185.299666
- Max Citation Score: 188.06552
- Similarity Product: 162.2472152215004

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

Dataset: test