PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["363", "017000"]

Abstract:
A hybid resonant DC to DC converter uses an LLC or other resonant structure on the primary side, applying a two state waveform to one end of the resonant structure and a multi-state waveform to the other end of the resonant structure. The waveforms are at or near the resonant resonant frequency and the output voltage level is regulated by varying the shape of the multi-state waveform by varying the duty cycle of the switches used to generate it. The allows the converter to operate near or at its optimal resonant point, resulting in higher efficiency, over a wide range of regulated output voltage levels.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of generating a direct current (DC) output voltage from a DC input voltage, comprising:\n receiving an input voltage; generating a first waveform from the input voltage; generating a second waveform from the input voltage; receiving the first waveform and the second waveform at a first node and a second node, respectively, of a DC to DC voltage converter, the DC to DC voltage converter comprising:\n a resonant tank connected between the first node and the second node; and \n an output voltage node connected to the resonant tank; and \n generating by the DC to DC voltage converter from the first and second waveforms of an output voltage at the output voltage node, wherein the first waveform has a cycle of a first frequency with a high value in a second part of the cycle and a low value in a first part of the cycle, and wherein the second waveform is a multi-level waveform of the first frequency with the high value for a first portion of the first part of the cycle and an intermediate value for a second portion of the first part of the cycle, and with the low value for a first portion of the second part of the cycle and the intermediate value for a second portion of the second part of the cycle, the intermediate value being between the high value and the low value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81967
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15863002', '15289345', '10729971', '13739920', '11504775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8202281602759078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985800906097224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7880633533092893
- Mean Citation Score: 257.228886
- Max Citation Score: 289.1830700000001
- Similarity Product: 241.5831187511885

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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