PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["710", "306000"]

Abstract:
A microcontroller unit of an input/output module checks whether a communication connection can be set up from the microcontroller unit to a communication subscriber of a data cable plugged into the one portion of a electrical plug connection of the input/output module, wherein the microcontroller unit of the input/output module actuates DC voltage supplies of the input/output module such that the DC voltage supplies apply a respective DC voltage to applicable electrical contacts of electrical contact elements of the input/output module only if the check has revealed that a communication connection has been able to be set up to the communication subscriber of the data cable.

Claim (Index 1):
A bus system, comprising:\n a data cable having two wire pairs, wherein the data cable comprises a first portion of an electrical plug connection, the first portion comprising four first electrical contact elements, wherein the four first electrical contact elements are each electrically connected to one of the wires of the two wire pairs, wherein the data cable has a communication subscriber, an input/output module, wherein the input/output module has a first DC voltage supply, a second DC voltage supply, a physical interface, a first transformer, a second transformer, a first inductive assembly, a second inductive assembly, a first capacitive assembly, a second capacitive assembly and a second portion that is complementary to the first portion of the electrical plug connection, the second portion comprising four second electrical contact elements, wherein the four second electrical contact elements each comprise an electrical contact, wherein the first DC voltage supply is connected to a respective electrical contact of two of the four second electrical contact elements via the first inductive assembly, wherein the second DC voltage supply is connected to a respective electrical contact of two others of the four second electrical contact elements via the second inductive assembly, wherein the physical interface is connected to the respective electrical contacts of the two of the four second electrical contact elements via the first transformer and via the first capacitive assembly in order to apply a first differential data signal to the two electrical contacts of the two of the four second electrical contact elements, wherein the physical interface is connected to the respective electrical contacts of the two others of the four second electrical contact elements via the second transformer and via the second capacitive assembly in order to apply a second differential data signal to the two electrical contacts of the two others of the four second electrical contact elements, wherein the input/output module comprises a microcontroller unit, wherein the microcontroller unit is configured to communicate with the communication subscriber of the data cable, wherein the microcontroller unit is configured to actuate the first and second DC voltage supplies such that they apply a respective DC voltage to the applicable electrical contacts of the four second electrical contact elements only if the microcontroller unit has been able to communicate with the communication subscriber of the data cable, so that a respective DC voltage is not applied in the absence of the communication and/or in the absence of a communication subscriber in the data cable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15459804', '15784000', '15601722', '15637337', '13345048']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.671832173161241
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740124689910124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6520502027442181
- Mean Citation Score: 195.685378
- Max Citation Score: 232.9121
- Similarity Product: 201.56567521225216

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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