PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["363", "089000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus having an AC rectifier configured to generate one or more rectified signals from an alternating current (AC) signal, bus having a positive line and a negative line, parallel converter connected between the positive line and the negative line, and bulk capacitor coupled to the parallel converter. The bus is connected to the AC rectifier to receive a first of the rectified signals between the positive line and the negative line. The apparatus has a controller configured to operate the parallel converter in a first mode in which energy from a second of the rectified signals from the AC rectifier is stored in the bulk capacitor and a second mode in which the energy stored in the bulk capacitor is discharged to the bus to increase a voltage on the bus during at least an initial portion of the second mode.

Claim (Index 15):
An alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter comprising:\n a bus having a positive line and a negative line; an AC rectifier having an input and one or more outputs, wherein a first of the one or more outputs is connected to the positive line and to the negative line of the bus, wherein the AC rectifier is configured to rectify an AC voltage received at the input and to provide a first rectified voltage to the first of the one or more outputs and a second rectified voltage to a second of the one or more outputs; a parallel converter connected to the second output of the AC rectifier, wherein the parallel converter has a first terminal connected to the positive line, a second terminal connected to the negative line, and a third terminal; a bulk capacitor coupled between the third terminal of the parallel converter and the negative line; a controller configured to:\n i) operate the parallel converter in a first mode in which the parallel converter uses the second rectified voltage from the AC rectifier to store energy in the bulk capacitor; and \n ii) operate the parallel converter in a second mode in which the energy stored in the bulk capacitor is discharged to the bus, wherein during at least an initial portion of the second mode the energy stored in the bulk capacitor is used to increase a voltage on the bus; and \n a DC to DC converter coupled in series between the bus and a DC output of the AC to DC converter, wherein the DC to DC converter is configured to convert the voltage on the bus to a DC output voltage at the DC output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14856748', '15496932', '14730699', '12925336', '15125957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.828202007381814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880846716076673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941902738043993
- Mean Citation Score: 265.798498
- Max Citation Score: 276.73633
- Similarity Product: 251.4698052720177

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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