PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002043
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["363", "050000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a power supply apparatus, which is capable of saving power at the time of low output power even in a configuration using an inrush current prevention resistor and a switch as an inrush current prevention circuit in order to increase power of a low power supply. An AC/DC power supply includes a rectifier configured to rectify an input AC voltage, a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth the rectified voltage, a resistor configured to limit an inrush current input to the smoothing capacitor, a relay configured to control whether to input a current to the resistor, and a current detection circuit. The AC/DC power supply further includes a converter connected at the subsequent stage of the smoothing capacitor and configured to adjust the voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor to a predetermined voltage.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus, which has a plurality of power modes having different levels of power consumption and including a power saving mode for reducing power consumption,\n the image forming apparatus comprising a power supply apparatus configured to convert an AC voltage input from an AC power supply into a DC voltage, the power supply apparatus including:\n a rectifier configured to rectify the AC voltage; \n a capacitor configured to smooth the voltage rectified by the rectifier; \n a current limiter configured to limit a current input to the capacitor; \n a converter, which is connected at a subsequent stage of the capacitor, and is configured to adjust the voltage smoothed by the capacitor to a predetermined DC voltage; and \n a controller configured to control whether to enable the current limiter based on a power mode of the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32787
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14848562', '14882529', '14148478', '14002786', '14882523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8218185080410453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4810242040478698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7877390776417277
- Mean Citation Score: 239.83943
- Max Citation Score: 242.57903
- Similarity Product: 202.6440405404055

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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