PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985867
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["323", "282000"]

Abstract:
A control circuit of a multi-phase converter can include: an inductor current sampling circuit configured to generate a plurality of sampling signals corresponding to a plurality of channels of the multi-phase converter, where each of the sampling signals characterizes an inductor current of a corresponding channel; an error circuit configured to generate a plurality of error signals corresponding to the plurality of channels, where each of the error signals characterizes an error between the inductor current of the corresponding channel and a reference current; and a modified circuit configured to modify the sampling signals of the corresponding channels according to the plurality of error signals to generate a plurality of modified sampling signals, where the control circuit balances the inductor currents between the plurality of channels according to the plurality of modified sampling signals.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the balancing the inductor currents between the plurality of channels according to the modified sampling signals comprises:\n a) generating an error compensation signal that characterizes a difference between an output feedback signal and an output reference signal of the multi-phase converter; and b) generating a plurality of switch drive signals by comparing the error compensation signal and each of the modified sampling signals to control a switching state of a power switch of each of the channels, thereby balancing the inductor currents between each of the channels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.71053
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15415210', '14967798', '14939037', '14525876', '15016905']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7014395984991674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4486129214338778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6761569307926384
- Mean Citation Score: 156.517024
- Max Citation Score: 160.41718
- Similarity Product: 144.35639232695104

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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