PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138073
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["327", "365000"]

Abstract:
Method and device for safe switching of a signal between a first and second point. Device includes a first branch having a first switch and second switch arranged between the first and second point, and a parallel second branch having a third switch and fourth switch. A testing device instructs a control unit, in a test sequence, to open the first switch for a first period of time, open the second switch for a second period of time, open the third switch for a third period of time, and open the fourth switch for a fourth period of time. Neither the first nor second periods of time overlap with the third or fourth period of time. A testing unit tests functioning of the switches during respective period of time, and generates an error signal in the event of a malfunction of at least one switch.

Claim (Index 14):
The switching device according to  claim 12 , wherein the at least one inhibiting input is connected via a rectifier circuit to the at least one control unit, wherein the rectifier circuit is configured in order to dynamize and rectify the inhibit signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15209159', '15659311', '14860031', '14128589', '12937473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7654025185538681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792475801924267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.736787024717724
- Mean Citation Score: 135.542804
- Max Citation Score: 142.44716
- Similarity Product: 93.83085974583624

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

Dataset: test