PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["315", "291000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus can include: a bleeder circuit coupled to a DC bus of an LED driver having a silicon-controlled dimmer; the bleeder circuit being configured to control a voltage of the DC bus to vary in a predetermined manner by drawing a bleed current through a bleed path when in a first mode, and to cut off the bleed path when in a second mode; and a controller configured to control the bleeder circuit to be in the first mode before the silicon-controlled dimmer is turned on.

Claim (Index 16):
The apparatus of  claim 15 , wherein said controller comprises:\n a) a transconductance amplifier having an output terminal coupled to a control terminal of said transistor, and a non-inverting input terminal coupled to said DC bus; b) a first control switch coupled between said non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal of said transconductance amplifier; and c) a second control switch, a charging capacitor, and a discharging resistor coupled in parallel between said inverting input terminal of said transconductance amplifier and ground, wherein said first control switch is turned on during said DC bus voltage is increased from a start threshold to said fourth threshold, and said second control switch is turned on for a predetermined time period when said DC bus voltage is increased to said fifth threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15935239', '15927256', '14936481', '15182471', '14210144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7314940826092882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141160758513167
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.709756281933491
- Mean Citation Score: 225.39629800000003
- Max Citation Score: 304.9793
- Similarity Product: 248.1006384453297

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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