PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138073
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["327", "365000"]

Abstract:
Method and device for safe switching of a signal between a first and second point. Device includes a first branch having a first switch and second switch arranged between the first and second point, and a parallel second branch having a third switch and fourth switch. A testing device instructs a control unit, in a test sequence, to open the first switch for a first period of time, open the second switch for a second period of time, open the third switch for a third period of time, and open the fourth switch for a fourth period of time. Neither the first nor second periods of time overlap with the third or fourth period of time. A testing unit tests functioning of the switches during respective period of time, and generates an error signal in the event of a malfunction of at least one switch.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 4 , wherein testing is performed for whether the first test point has zero potential during the overlapping of the first and second periods of time, and for whether the second test point has zero potential during the overlapping of the third and fourth periods of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15209159', '15659311', '14860031', '14128589', '12937473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.762204646227239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4956829234991444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7355524739544296
- Mean Citation Score: 135.542804
- Max Citation Score: 142.44716
- Similarity Product: 80.68878621023654

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

Dataset: test