PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865424
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "021030"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a converter includes a transformer having a first winding and a second winding; a first full-bridge coupled to the first winding of the transformer; and a second full-bridge coupled to the second winding of the transformer. The method includes: injecting an auxiliary current into the second full-bridge, where the injected auxiliary current causes a voltage across a transistor of the first full-bridge to decrease; and turning on the transistor of the first full-bridge a first time period after injecting the auxiliary current.

Claim (Index 8):
A main circuit comprising a controller configured to be coupled to a first full-bridge coupled to a first winding of a transformer, a second full-bridge coupled to a second winding of the transformer, and an auxiliary circuit coupled to the second full-bridge, the controller configured to:\n inject an auxiliary current into the second full-bridge through an auxiliary inductor of the auxiliary circuit that is directly connected to the second full-bridge, wherein the injected auxiliary current causes a voltage across a transistor of the first full-bridge to decrease, and turn on the transistor of the first full-bridge a first time period after injecting the auxiliary current, wherein the auxiliary circuit comprises:\n an auxiliary capacitor having a first node coupled to a first supply node, \n a diode having an anode coupled to the first supply node, \n an auxiliary switch coupled between a cathode of the diode and a second node of the auxiliary capacitor, and \n the auxiliary inductor coupled between the cathode of the diode and the second full-bridge, wherein injecting the auxiliary current into the second full-bridge comprises injecting a current into the second winding of the transformer through the auxiliary inductor, wherein the auxiliary switch is configured to disconnect the cathode of the diode and the auxiliary inductor from the second node of the auxiliary capacitor when the auxiliary switch is off.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38462
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10644906', '13404167', '11965327', '12651433', '11443786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817512520184856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900131474543935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7847625829118098
- Mean Citation Score: 230.545114
- Max Citation Score: 240.63048
- Similarity Product: 178.243316859169

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

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