PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029179
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["361", "160000"]

Abstract:
A low powered system for providing sufficient current to a fuel control mechanism drive. The system may have a fuel control mechanism pick circuit that has an energy storage mechanism for providing a large amount of current for a short time to the fuel control mechanism drive. A safety switch may be enabled with a special signal to let current flow to the fuel control mechanism drive to operate a corresponding fuel control mechanism for controlling fuel to a pilot light or heating element. The pilot light or heating element may provide heat to a thermoelectric source that generates electrical power from the heat. The electrical power may go to a single DC-to-DC converter and voltage clamp for providing a voltage source to a microcontroller and other circuits of the system. The pick circuit may prevent a harmful reverse flow of current from the storage mechanism to the thermoelectric source.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for picking an electrically controlled gas valve, the method comprising:\n powering a microcontroller using charge generated by a thermoelectric device exposed to thermal energy; using a first output signal of the microcontroller to control charging a capacitor with charge generated by the thermoelectric device; using a second output of the microcontroller to close a first switch that once closed allows at least some of the charge stored on the capacitor to flow as a valve pick current to an electrically controlled gas valve to pick the electrically controlled gas valve from a closed position to an open position; and using a third output of the microcontroller to open a second switch while picking the electrically controlled gas valve, the second switch once opened inhibits the valve pick current from flowing to the thermoelectric device when picking the electrically controlled gas valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26087
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15707765', '15676691', '14042269', '14656360', '14120311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8168544882295291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4972658374097871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7848956231475549
- Mean Citation Score: 225.54199000000003
- Max Citation Score: 265.2473
- Similarity Product: 216.8817526282549

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

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