PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["315", "111210"]

Abstract:
A direct drive circuit for providing RF power to a component of a substrate processing system includes a clock generator to generate a clock signal at a first frequency, a gate driver to receive the clock signal and a half bridge circuit. The half bridge circuit includes a first switch with a control terminal connected to the gate driver, a first terminal and a second terminal; a second switch with a control terminal connected to the gate driver, a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the first switch and an output node, and a second terminal; a first DC supply to supply a first voltage potential to the first terminal of the first switch; and a second DC supply to supply a second voltage potential to the second terminal of the second switch. The first voltage potential and the second voltage potential have opposite polarity and are approximately equal in magnitude.

Claim (Index 2):
A direct drive circuit for providing RF power to a component of a substrate processing system, comprising:\n a clock generator to generate a clock signal at a first frequency; a gate driver to receive the clock signal; a half bridge circuit including:\n a first switch with a control terminal connected to the gate driver, a first terminal and a second terminal; \n a second switch with a control terminal connected to the gate driver, a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the first switch and an output node, and a second terminal; \n a first DC supply to supply a first voltage potential to the first terminal of the first switch; and a second DC supply to supply a second voltage potential to the second terminal of the second switch, wherein the first voltage potential and the second voltage potential have opposite polarity and are approximately equal in magnitude; a current sensor to sense current at the output node and to generate a current signal; a voltage sensor to sense a voltage at the output node and to generate a voltage signal; and a controller including:\n a phase offset calculator to calculate a phase offset between the voltage signal and the current signal; and \n a clock adjuster to adjust the first frequency based on the phase offset.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96364
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15162960', '14992558', '12229412', '11619246', '10760174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7221035235103053
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4836867641294771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6982618475722225
- Mean Citation Score: 211.62119
- Max Citation Score: 220.29625
- Similarity Product: 173.69587470136582

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