PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["363", "025000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a multiphase converter having a plurality of voltage conversion units, and is configured to protect the faulty phase and continue driving using another phase when an abnormality occurs in any phase. A DC-DC converter includes a plurality of voltage conversion units that are in parallel between an input-side conductive path and an output-side conductive path. A control unit subjects the plurality of voltage conversion units to a test operation in which a duty ratio of a PWM signal for each voltage conversion unit is changed. The control unit identifies an abnormal voltage conversion unit based on at least one of the states of the electric current, the voltage, and the temperature of the multiphase conversion unit during this test period, and causes the remaining voltage conversion unit other than the identified abnormal voltage conversion unit to perform voltage conversion.

Claim (Index 5):
The multiphase converter according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the plurality of voltage conversion units are provided with a plurality of detection units that are each associated with a voltage conversion unit or a group of voltage conversion units, and are configured to detect at least one of an electric current, a voltage, and a temperature of the associated voltage conversion unit or group of voltage conversion units, and the abnormality identifying unit identifies whether or not the target voltage conversion unit or the target group of voltage conversion units that was subjected to the test operation is abnormal, based on a result of detection by the associated detection unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98667
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15767409', '16322042', '15767396', '15754501', '15414648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8295435290631833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098288558883831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7975720617457033
- Mean Citation Score: 232.903784
- Max Citation Score: 311.1422
- Similarity Product: 258.05295902467964

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

Dataset: test