PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16277080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["363", "021030"]

Abstract:
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus that includes a first power converter stage connected to a first side of a first transformer, and a second power converter stage connected to a first side of a second transformer. The apparatus further includes an interleaved multi-bridge circuit connected to the second side of the first transformer and to the second side of the second transformer. The apparatus further includes a controller that is configured to operate the interleaved multi-bridge circuit in a parallel mode in which the second sides of the first and second transformers are in parallel at a DC terminal of the interleaved multi-bridge circuit and in a series mode in which the second sides of the first and second transformers are in series at the DC terminal.

Claim (Index 16):
An alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter, comprising:\n one or more AC to DC rectifiers each having an input and an output, wherein the one or more AC to DC rectifiers are each configured to provide a DC voltage to their respective output in response to an AC voltage at their respective input; a first high frequency converter having an input connected to the output of one of the one or more AC to DC rectifiers, the first high frequency converter having an output connected to a first side of a first transformer, wherein the first high frequency converter is configured to provide a first output voltage to the first side of the first transformer in response to a first DC voltage from one of the one or more AC to DC rectifiers; a second high frequency converter having an input connected to the output of one of the one or more AC to DC rectifiers, the second high frequency converter having an output connected to a first side of a second transformer, wherein the second high frequency converter is configured to provide a second output voltage to the first side of the second transformer in response to a second DC voltage from one of the one or more AC to DC rectifiers; an interleaved multi-bridge circuit connected to a second side of the first transformer and to a second side of the second transformer, wherein the interleaved multi-bridge circuit comprises three or more bridges and has a direct current (DC) output; and a controller coupled to the interleaved multi-bridge circuit, to the first high frequency converter, and to the second high frequency converter, wherein the controller is configured to operate the interleaved multi-bridge circuit in a parallel mode in which the second sides of the first and second transformers are in parallel at the DC output resulting in a first voltage at the DC output being equal to both a second voltage on the second side of the first transformer and a third voltage on the second side of the second transformer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04348
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16007750', '14739822', '10729971', '14251033', '13362620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817821048102456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5394939099691235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7899883342891227
- Mean Citation Score: 260.601898
- Max Citation Score: 395.58438
- Similarity Product: 349.44298110408414

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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