PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16312071
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "017000"]

Abstract:
Described is a hybrid electronic and magnetic structure that enables a transformer with fractional and reconfigurable effective turns ratios (e.g. 12:0.5, 12:⅔, 12:1, and 12:2) and hereinafter referred to as a Variable-Inverter-Rectifier-Transformer (VIRT). A VIRT is valuable in converters having wide operating voltage ranges and high step-up/down, as it offers a means to reduce turns count and copper loss within a transformer while facilitating voltage doubling and quadrupling. Such characteristics are beneficial for reducing the size of a transformer stage in many power electronics applications, such as USB wall chargers. In embodiments, a VIRT comprises a plurality of switching cells distributed around a magnetic core and coupled to half-turns wound through that core. By controlling operating modes of the switching cells, it is possible to gain control over flux paths and current paths in the transformer.

Claim (Index 9):
The variable-inverter-rectifier-transformer of  claim 4 , where each of the first and second switching cells of the first power convert and the first and second switching cells of the second power converter operate in a switching pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58163
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15954424', '14836630', '14911774', '12735766', '10264327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.846394388898058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4993751966333895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8116924696715911
- Mean Citation Score: 270.517776
- Max Citation Score: 276.72958
- Similarity Product: 214.9105844086993

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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