PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["363", "132000"]

Abstract:
A power converter including a bridge circuit is provided. The power converter is designed to convert a direct current of a current source into an alternating current and/or an alternating current into a direct current. The bridge circuit includes a first parallel circuit assembly, which is coupled to a higher potential of the current source and which has a plurality of switching elements connected in parallel, a second parallel circuit assembly, which is coupled to a lower potential of the current source and which has a plurality of switching elements connected in parallel, and a plurality of taps, which are each coupled to the first and second parallel circuit assemblies. Each switching element of the first and the second parallel circuit assemblies has two conducting connections and a control connection, which controls the flow of current from one conducting connection to the other conducting connection. The power converter also includes a control device, which is designed in such a way that, when the power converter is operated at partial load, at least one switching element of a parallel circuit assembly is controlled in such a way that said switching element is not switched on during at least one cycle. The switching elements of a parallel circuit assembly are thermally coupled to one another.

Claim (Index 1):
A current converter, which is configured to convert a direct current of a current source to an alternating current and/or to convert an alternating current to a direct current, comprising:\n a bridge circuit including\n a first parallel circuit arrangement having a plurality of parallel-connected switching elements, the first parallel circuit arrangement being coupled to a higher potential of the current source, \n a second parallel circuit arrangement having a plurality of parallel-connected switching elements, the second parallel circuit arrangement being coupled to a lower potential of the current source, and \n a plurality of taps, which are each coupled to the first parallel circuit arrangement and second parallel circuit arrangement, \n wherein each switching element of the first parallel circuit arrangement and the second parallel circuit arrangement has two line terminals and one control terminal that controls a flow of current from one line terminal to the other line terminal; and a control device, which is configured such that when a current transducer is operated at part load, at least one switching element of the first and second parallel circuit arrangements is actuated in such a way that the at least one switching element is not switched on during at least one cycle, wherein the switching elements of the first and second parallel circuit arrangements are thermally coupled to one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96104
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13054978', '10468697', '15675632', '15957845', '14968540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7745797443182472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821179646742603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7453335663538485
- Mean Citation Score: 184.061072
- Max Citation Score: 203.60567
- Similarity Product: 157.74528777231694

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

Dataset: test