PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["318", "003000"]

Abstract:
An actuator system which may incorporate a motor, a motor controller connected to the motor, a processor connected to the motor controller, and a switch connected to the processor for engaging the motor to open and close an actuator shaft. The switch may have a position which is a test mode. Selecting the position of test mode may cause the motor to move the actuator shaft to a certain position to verify operation of the actuator shaft. The actuator shaft may stay in the certain position while the switch is in a position of test mode. The system may also incorporate a spring attached to the actuator shaft. If power fails to the motor, then the actuator spring or another mechanism may return the actuator shaft to a fail safe position. The test mode may alternatively be selected at a controller via the communications bus to the processor.

Claim (Index 1):
An actuator system for use with heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, comprising:\n a motor; a motor controller connected to the motor; a processor connected to the motor controller; and a switch connected to the processor for engaging the motor to open and close an actuator shaft; and wherein: the switch has a position which is a test mode; and a selection of a position of the test mode causes the motor to move the actuator shaft to verify operation of the actuator shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 318.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13278694', '13293029', '13293051', '14073562', '13291928']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6676672926867928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4613465863225144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.647035222050365
- Mean Citation Score: 188.668802
- Max Citation Score: 200.7499
- Similarity Product: 177.46659768303036

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