PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031773
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["327", "133000"]

Abstract:
A method is for reducing pulse skipping from a characteristic affecting a modulating signal input to an integrator of a pulse width modulation (PWM) modulator, together with a square wave carrier signal for generating a triangular waveform of the PWM modulator. The method may include creating a broad synchronous peak at vertexes of the triangular waveform output by the integrator.

Claim (Index 1):
A pulse width modulation (PWM) modulator, comprising:\n an integrator configured to:\n receive a modulating signal and a square wave carrier signal; \n modulate the square wave carrier signal based on the modulating signal, the square wave carrier signal having a frequency greater than a frequency of the modulating signal; and \n output a triangular waveform comprising a downward slope, an upward slope, and a step discontinuity connecting an end of the downward slope to a beginning of the upward slope; and \n a comparator configured to compare the triangular waveform with a threshold and output a PWM modulated square wave carrier signal, wherein the integrator comprises a negative feedback loop coupled between an output of the integrator and an input terminal of the integrator, the negative feedback loop comprising:\n an integrating capacitor; and \n a resistor coupled in series with the integrating capacitor, the resistor having a resistance configured to cancel a right hand side zero of a transfer function of the integrator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41304
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14592364', '16001127', '11541999', '13198642', '13114464']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.734385258624718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315423668456515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7141009694468115
- Mean Citation Score: 244.074966
- Max Citation Score: 361.2325
- Similarity Product: 330.4854365712404

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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