PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745878
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["307", "113000"]

Abstract:
A switching device for low or medium voltage electric power distribution networks, the switching device comprising: at least an electric pole comprising a movable contact and a fixed contact, which are coupleable/decoupleable one to another; a circuit assembly, which comprises a chain of semiconductor devices adapted to switch in an ON state or in an OFF state depending on the voltage applied thereto, the semiconductor devices being electrically connected in series one to another in such a way that a current can flow according to a predefined conduction direction (CD) when the semiconductor devices are in an ON state. The circuit assembly comprises an input terminal, an output terminal and at least an intermediate terminal electrically connected with at least an intermediate electric node positioned between two subsequent semiconductor devices. The input terminal is electrically connected with the fixed contact: the input terminal, the output terminal and the at least an intermediate terminal are electrically coupleable/decoupleable with/from the movable contact when the movable contact reaches different positions during a movement towards/away from the fixed contact in such a way that different groups of semiconductor devices switch in an ON state or in an OFF state at different instants during the movement of the movable contact, depending on the position reached by the movable contact.

Claim (Index 2):
The switching device, according to  claim 1 , wherein said circuit assembly comprises a single intermediate terminal electrically connected with a corresponding intermediate electric node positioned between two subsequent semiconductor devices;\n wherein said chain of semiconductor devices comprises a first group of semiconductor devices electrically connected in series between said input terminal and said intermediate terminal, and a second group of semiconductor devices electrically connected in series between said intermediate terminal and said output terminal; wherein said input terminal, said output terminal and said intermediate terminal are electrically coupleable/decoupleable with/from said movable contact when said movable contact reaches different positions during a movement towards/away from said fixed contact in such a way that said first and second groups of semiconductor devices switch in an ON state or in an OFF state at different instants during the movement of said movable contact, depending on the position reached by said movable contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46237
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14728275', '13466496', '12717868', '15427907', '14270681']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8187041427855283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614102770114847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.782974756208124
- Mean Citation Score: 178.376804
- Max Citation Score: 193.83667
- Similarity Product: 164.05682253234983

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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