PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16231998
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["324", "509000"]

Abstract:
A test circuit performs fault detection tests on a motor branch circuit, to detect pre-existing faults before a motor start-up to pre-empt potential damage to the motor branch circuit therefrom. The test circuit is configured to be coupled to the phase lines of a motor branch circuit at a set of test points strategically located on the phase lines. The test circuit includes test lines that are each coupled to a different one of the phase lines at one of the set of test points. The test circuit includes a test controller that, during a test mode, sequentially presents a low voltage supply to each phase line through the test line coupled thereto, to test for ground faults then sequentially couples the low voltage supply across each possible pairing of the phase lines to test for line-to-line faults. The test mode can be initiated manually or automatically.

Claim (Index 18):
The test circuit of  claim 17 , wherein when the presence of at least one ground fault is detected, the test controller maintains the lockout control signal in the active state to prevent the isolation means from closing until the at least one detected fault is cleared.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32836
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15683749', '12642737', '13274291', '14583174', '09682730']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5517968720132483
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5427303393858661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5508902187505101
- Mean Citation Score: 239.150182
- Max Citation Score: 390.5549
- Similarity Product: 307.91438883903027

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

Dataset: test