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 11):
A method of operating an alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter, the method comprising:\n receiving an AC voltage at an input of an AC rectifier in the AC to DC converter; rectifying the AC voltage by the AC rectifier to produce one or more rectified voltages; providing a first of the one or more rectified voltages signals to a bus having a positive line and a negative line; controlling a parallel converter that is connected between the positive line and the negative line of the bus in order to:\n use a second of the one or more rectified voltages during a first mode to store energy into a bulk capacitor coupled to the parallel converter; and \n discharge the energy stored in the bulk capacitor to the bus to increase a voltage on the bus during at least an initial portion of a second mode.

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): 0.8276076477891632
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935236165573179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941992446659787
- Mean Citation Score: 265.798498
- Max Citation Score: 276.73633
- Similarity Product: 231.10686245647733

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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