PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16067250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["331", "1170FE"]

Abstract:
A capacitor bank has a capacitance value that is discontinuous and has an extremely narrow variable range. Thus, in a case of obtaining a wide variable range of the capacitance value, a large number of capacitors are connected in parallel and used while being switched by switches. The present technology achieves at least one of: allowing the capacitance value of a variable capacitance circuit to be varied continuously by electrical control without increasing the parasitic capacitance; and decreasing the current consumption of an oscillator circuit using the variable capacitance circuit as compared to a conventional case. The variable capacitance circuit includes: a transconductance circuit that includes a MOS transistor; an inductor that is connected in parallel to the transconductance circuit; and a Gm control circuit that varies a transconductance of the MOS transistor.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of controlling a variable capacitance circuit, wherein\n the variable capacitance circuit comprises a transconductance circuit including a MOS transistor, an inductor connected in parallel to the transconductance circuit, and a current source MOS transistor passing a current between a drain and a source of the MOS transistor, and the method includes a Gm control step of adjusting a capacitance value of the variable capacitance circuit by varying a gate voltage input to a gate of the current source MOS transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11594102', '11435757', '12979659', '11268643', '12127782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7926680684546914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043291215618948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7638341737654117
- Mean Citation Score: 257.08233200000006
- Max Citation Score: 272.12265
- Similarity Product: 202.79365947931407

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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