PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16313951
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["363", "131000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a modular multilevel converter ( 10 ) including a control module ( 12 ) for regulating the internal energy stored in the capacitors of the submodules of an arm of the converter, the control module being suitable for limiting the internal energy to below an upper limit and/or to above a lower limit, by using parameters measured on the DC power supply network ( 110 ) and on the AC power supply network ( 120 ) together with setpoints for the operating power of the converter.

Claim (Index 42):
A method of controlling a modular multilevel voltage converter for converting an AC voltage into a DC voltage, and vice versa, the converter comprising a DC portion for connection to a DC power supply network and an AC portion for connection to an AC power supply network, the converter comprising a plurality of legs, each leg comprising an upper arm and a lower arm, each arm comprising a plurality of submodules that are individually controllable by a control member specific to each submodule, and each submodule comprising a capacitor connectable in series in the arm when the control member of the submodule is in an \u201con\u201d state; the method comprising a step of regulating the internal energy stored in the capacitors of the submodules of an upper or lower arm of the converter, in which said internal energy is limited to below an upper limit and/or to above a lower limit, by using parameters measured on the DC power supply network and on the AC power supply network, together with setpoints for the operating power of the converter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69091
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15749829', '13412393', '15520420', '14406297', '14323380']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7956627617882567
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.574925210663427
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7735890066757738
- Mean Citation Score: 317.1491620000001
- Max Citation Score: 458.00385
- Similarity Product: 429.5342418678313

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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