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 25):
Method according to  claim 22 , wherein the control signal is an optical, acoustical or electronic control signal.

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): 0.6658513250657916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947451078922857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.648740703348441
- Mean Citation Score: 119.437683
- Max Citation Score: 121.418785
- Similarity Product: 73.7472153159666

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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