PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "20000R"]

Abstract:
A novel approach for the control of AC power uses power MOSFETs in a bidirectional switch subcircuit configuration having an optically coupled, electrically floating control circuit that self-biases the switches into the “on” state and uses an optically coupled control element to force the switches into the “off state. The time constant of the control circuit is fast enough to allow phase control as well as on-off control. A plurality of subcircuits can be easily cascaded to provide improved performance.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of using the bidirectional electronic switch circuit of  claim 3  to couple AC power to a load device comprising:\n a. first and second power input terminals for receiving power from an AC source; \n b. first and second power output terminals for providing AC power to the load device; \n c. a circuit array comprising a plurality of bidirectional electronic switch circuits arranged in a series configuration wherein the input terminal of the first bidirectional electronic switch circuit is the input terminal of the circuit array and the input terminal of each succeeding bidirectional electronic switch is connected to the output terminal of the previous bidirectional electronic switch except that the output terminal of the last bidirectional electronic switch circuit is the output terminal of the circuit array, all of the first control terminals of the bidirectional electronic switch circuits are interconnected to form the first control terminal of the circuit array and all of the second control terminals of the bidirectional electronic switch circuits are interconnected to form the second control terminal of the circuit array; \n d. connecting the input terminal of said bidirectional electronic switch circuit array to the first power input terminal and the output terminal of said bidirectional electronic switch circuit array to the first power output terminal; \n e. connecting the second power input terminal to the second power output terminal; and \n f. providing an electronic control signal to the first and second control terminals of the bidirectional electronic switch circuit array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47458
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15709028', '13080786', '12567847', '14844944', '15209958']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6820555475170585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603640163964259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6598863944049953
- Mean Citation Score: 168.69465999999997
- Max Citation Score: 174.3602
- Similarity Product: 147.33757493324282

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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