PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16063627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "644000"]

Abstract:
For providing a very simple and reliable monitoring of the functionality of contacts together with a high flexibility of selection of the contacts a method for monitoring the functionality of redundantly interconnected contacts is provided, preferably within a load current circuit, wherein said n contacts, n=2, provide an electrical connection between a power supply and a load, wherein said n contacts are switchable by a controller and wherein each of said n contacts is designed for providing the electrical connection between the power supply and the load all alone. The method is characterized in that the controller switches on said n contacts during n subsequent activations according to a defined schedule according to which at the first of said n subsequent activations one of said n contacts is switched on first and the remaining n−1 contacts are switched on afterwards, so that a verification regarding the functionality of said one of said n contacts is possible, and according to which at each of the n−1 remaining subsequent activations a further one of said n contacts is switched on first with switching on of the remaining n−1 contacts afterwards, so that after said n subsequent activations each of said n contacts has once been switched on first and a verification regarding the functionality of each of said n contacts is possible. Further, a corresponding method for subsequent deactivations and corresponding apparatuses are provided.

Claim (Index 30):
Apparatus for monitoring the functionality of redundantly interconnected contacts, particularly for performing the method according to  claim 17 , wherein said n contacts, n=2, . . . , provide an electrical connection between a power supply and a load, wherein said n contacts are switchable by a controller and wherein each of said n contacts is designed for providing the electrical connection between the power supply and the load all alone, wherein the controller is arranged for switching off said n contacts during n subsequent deactivations according to a defined schedule according to which at the first of said n subsequent deactivations n\u22121 of said n contacts are switched off first and the remaining contact is switched off afterwards, so that a verification regarding the functionality of said remaining contact is possible, and according to which at each of the n\u22121 remaining subsequent deactivations a further one of said n contacts is switched off afterwards with switching off of the remaining n\u22121 contacts before, so that after said n subsequent deactivations each of said n contacts has once been switched off after the remaining n\u22121 contacts and a verification regarding the functionality of each of said n contacts is possible.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90476
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14790853', '15400405', '14045877', '12816140', '14093966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6696187935799661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792665479812728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6505835690200968
- Mean Citation Score: 119.437683
- Max Citation Score: 121.418785
- Similarity Product: 83.41180760862798

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

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