PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A hot sensor detects a temperature of an output transistor and a cold sensor detects a temperature of a position distant from the output transistor. When the temperature of the hot sensor rises more than a reference temperature, a temperature detecting circuit asserts an overtemperature detecting signal, and when a temperature difference between the hot sensor and the cold sensor is more than a reference temperature difference, the above circuit asserts the temperature difference detecting signal. A current limiting circuit generates a limited current signal sequentially variable with the negative temperature characteristic for the temperature of the cold sensor and controls a drive current of the output transistor to a current value depending on the signal level of the limited current signal when the overtemperature detecting signal is asserted.

Claim (Index 12):
The unit according to  claim 11 ,\n wherein the limited current signal becomes a constant signal level for the temperature of the cold sensor in the temperature range in which the temperature of the cold sensor is lower than the boundary temperature, and wherein the current limiting circuit limits the drive current of the output transistor to a current value depending on the signal level of the limited current signal when the temperature difference detecting signal is asserted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64706
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14865170', '15587177', '12677707', '10980293', '14822460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.716131107605866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009675723645651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6946147540817358
- Mean Citation Score: 175.202072
- Max Citation Score: 196.81769
- Similarity Product: 123.59302002548696

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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