PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916697
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["363", "078000"]

Abstract:
A control unit for a switching converter has an inductor element coupled to an input and a switch element coupled to the inductor element and generates a command signal having a switching period to switch the switch element and determine a first time period in which an inductor current is flowing in the inductor element for storing energy and a second time period in which energy is transferred to a load. An input current is distorted relative to a sinusoid by a distortion factor caused by current ripple on the inductor current. The duration of the first time period is determined based on a comparison between a peak value of the inductor current and a current reference that is a function of an output voltage of said voltage converter. A reference modification stage modifies one of the current reference and sensed value of the inductor current to compensate for distortion introduced by the distortion factor on the input current.

Claim (Index 6):
The control unit according to  claim 4 , wherein said sensing resistor is configured to be connected to a first input of said control unit, and wherein said optimization resistor is configured to be connected to a second input of said control unit that is distinct from said first input, and said first current source has an output connected to said second input, the control unit further including a summing block having inputs coupled to said first input and second input of said control unit and being configured to generate said comparison voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39706
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15913423', '15383844', '14957329', '11951228', '13607212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8389670057100626
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5183597208534897
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8069062772244052
- Mean Citation Score: 262.42194
- Max Citation Score: 340.0189
- Similarity Product: 302.6821154619217

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

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