PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["290", "045000"]

Abstract:
A power generation device for a utility vehicle having a battery source capable of storing electrical energy and selectively outputting electrical energy and selectively receiving electrical energy, a logic/driver module operably coupled to the battery source and capable of outputting power to a drive system of the utility vehicle, an internal combustion engine capable of outputting a mechanical driving force in response to a control input from the logic/driver module, and a brushless DC motor operably coupled to the internal combustion engine via a coupler and electrically coupled to the logic/driver module. The brushless DC motor is capable of operating as a generator in response to the mechanical driving force of the internal combustion engine, thereby outputting electrical energy to the logic/driver module, and further is capable of operating as an electric motor in response to input of electrical energy from the logic/driver module.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for generating electrical energy for at least one voltage drawing component of a utility vehicle utilizing a power generation system of the utility vehicle, wherein the power generation system comprises a battery source capable of receiving, storing and outputting electrical energy, an internal combustion engine, a brushless DC motor mechanically coupled to the internal combustion engine, and a logic/driver module electrically and communicatively coupled to the battery source, the internal combustion engine and the brushless DC motor, said method comprising;\n operating the internal combustion engine at varying revolutions per unit time to drive the brushless DC motor such that the brushless DC motor generates and outputs electrical energy to the logic/driver module and at least one voltage drawing component of the vehicle; and regulating a voltage of the electrical energy generated and output by the brushless DC motor, via control of the brushless DC motor by the logic/driver, such that the voltage is maintained within a predetermined voltage range irrespective of the varying revolutions per unit of time of the internal combustion engine, thereby preventing an increase in voltage output by the brushless DC motor, resulting from the varying revolution per unit of time of the internal combustion engine, that exceeds a maximum value of said voltage range and resultant damage to the at least one voltage drawing component due to overvoltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14100410', '14100481', '14100529', '11229762', '11521242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6775390243148962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5337637812280581
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6631615000062124
- Mean Citation Score: 296.007008
- Max Citation Score: 382.67056
- Similarity Product: 337.6268895452596

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

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