PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974200
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A drive circuit is configured to drive a light emitting unit which is provided in a vehicle lamp and includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements connected in series. The drive circuit includes a drive voltage generation unit configured to reduce an input voltage from a battery to generate a drive voltage for driving the semiconductor light emitting elements, and a control unit configured to perform ON/OFF control for a bypass switch connected in parallel to a part of the semiconductor light emitting elements and to perform interlock dimming control when the input voltage becomes a first threshold value or lower. The interlock dimming control selects a dimming mode and increases an ON ratio per unit time of the bypass switch as the input voltage drops in the dimming mode.

Claim (Index 2):
The drive circuit according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the control unit is configured to maintain the bypass switch in an ON state in the dimming mode in a state where the input voltage has dropped to a second threshold value or lower, the second threshold value being smaller than the first threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17742
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15748997', '14442647', '14657476', '15686520', '13449856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.744355483599739
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4759948454352181
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7175194197832869
- Mean Citation Score: 188.132646
- Max Citation Score: 198.09064
- Similarity Product: 161.4507192586088

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

Dataset: test