PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262021
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["363", "065000"]

Abstract:
A multi-phase parallel converter can include: sampling circuits corresponding to power stage circuits to form a plurality of phases of the multi-phase parallel converter, where each sampling circuit samples an inductor current of a corresponding power stage circuit, and generates a sense signal; a current-sharing circuit that generates a current-sharing control signal according to a superimposed signal that is generated by adding the sense signal to a bias voltage signal; switching control circuits corresponding to the power stage circuits, where each switching control circuit receives the current-sharing control signal, and controls a switching operation of a corresponding power stage circuit; and a bias voltage generator that generates the bias voltage signal to gradually increase/decrease when a selected phase is to be disabled/enabled.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of controlling a multi-phase parallel converter having a plurality of power stage circuits, the method comprising:\n a) decreasing an output current of one of said power stage circuits gradually when said power stage circuit is to be disable, in order to provide an output current to a load in accordance with a current sharing control corresponding to said power stage circuit; b) increasing said output current gradually in accordance with said current sharing control when one power stage circuit is to be enabled to provide said output current to said load; and c) maintaining said output currents of remaining of said plurality of power stage circuits to be consistent and to make an output voltage of said converter to be constant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33929
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14967798', '14939037', '13495965', '14468579', '15491320']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7775012457030298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5251565119626326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7522667723289901
- Mean Citation Score: 230.216442
- Max Citation Score: 331.47852
- Similarity Product: 244.5914663187289

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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