PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986200
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A DC-DC converter and a corresponding method for maintaining an output voltage of the DC-DC converter, wherein the DC-DC converter is configured to operate in a discontinuous conduction mode, within a predetermined voltage range. The method comprises adjusting a duty cycle of the DC-DC converter based on the output voltage to maintain the output voltage within a predetermined voltage range; wherein the duty cycle of the DC-DC converter is adjusted by switching between a first switching frequency to a second switching frequency, and the first switching frequency and the second switching frequency are selected such that the first switching frequency and the second switching frequency fall outside of at least one predefined disallowed frequency band.

Claim (Index 21):
The DC-DC converter of  claim 18  wherein the adjustment block is further configured to: responsive to the output voltage being below the predetermined voltage range when using the second switching frequency, first increase the duty cycle by increasing an on time of the DC-DC converter until a maximum duty cycle for the second switching frequency is reached, and\n responsive to the output voltage remaining below the predetermined voltage range when using the second switching frequency, switch to the first switching frequency.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16071
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15984965', '15952584', '15586936', '11079448', '11079461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7854896130169237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5031575593348062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7572564076487119
- Mean Citation Score: 264.75422999999995
- Max Citation Score: 289.99884
- Similarity Product: 226.01938915460585

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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