PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["290", "045000"]

Abstract:
A power generation device for a utility vehicle having a battery source capable of storing electrical energy and selectively outputting electrical energy and selectively receiving electrical energy, a logic/driver module operably coupled to the battery source and capable of outputting power to a drive system of the utility vehicle, an internal combustion engine capable of outputting a mechanical driving force in response to a control input from the logic/driver module, and a brushless DC motor operably coupled to the internal combustion engine via a coupler and electrically coupled to the logic/driver module. The brushless DC motor is capable of operating as a generator in response to the mechanical driving force of the internal combustion engine, thereby outputting electrical energy to the logic/driver module, and further is capable of operating as an electric motor in response to input of electrical energy from the logic/driver module.

Claim (Index 1):
A power generation system for a utility vehicle, said power generation device comprising:\n a battery source capable of storing electrical energy, said battery source selectively outputting electrical energy and selectively receiving electrical energy; a logic/driver module operably coupled to said battery source, said logic/driver module capable of outputting electrical energy to a motive drive system of the utility vehicle; an internal combustion engine capable of operating at varying revolutions per unit of time to output a mechanical driving force, said internal combustion engine being responsive to a control input from said logic/driver module; and a brushless DC motor operably coupled to said internal combustion engine via a coupler and electrically coupled to said logic/driver module, said brushless DC motor being capable of operating as a generator in response to said mechanical driving force of said internal combustion engine, thereby generating and outputting electrical energy to said logic/driver module and at least one voltage drawing component of the vehicle, said logic/driver module being operable to control operation of said brushless DC motor such that a voltage of said electrical energy generated and output by said brushless DC motor is regulated and maintained within a predetermined voltage range irrespective of the varying revolutions per unit of time of said internal combustion engine, thereby preventing an increase in voltage output by the brushless DC motor, resulting from said varying revolution per unit of time of said internal combustion engine, that exceeds a maximum value of said voltage range and resultant damage to said at least one voltage drawing component due to overvoltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14100410', '14100481', '14100529', '11229762', '11521242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6766788766856997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5344163195568904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6624526209728189
- Mean Citation Score: 296.007008
- Max Citation Score: 382.67056
- Similarity Product: 367.64332140955935

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

Dataset: test