PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A method includes switching a switching circuit of the switched-mode power supply in a synchronous mode by turning on and off switches of the switching circuit in synchrony with a clock signal, wherein the switching circuit is coupled to an inductive element, and wherein the synchronous mode comprises a charging phase and a discharging phase; switching the switching circuit in an asynchronous mode by turning on and off switches of the switching circuit without being synchronized with the clock signal, wherein the asynchronous mode comprises a charging phase and a discharging phase; charging the inductive element during the charging phase of the synchronous mode; discharging the inductive element during the discharging phase of the synchronous mode; charging the inductive element during the charging phase of the asynchronous mode; and discharging the inductive element during the discharging phase of the asynchronous mode.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of controlling a switched-mode power supply, the method comprising:\n begin charging an inductive element of a switched-mode power supply during a charging phase of an asynchronous mode when an output voltage of the switched-mode power supply becomes lower than a reference voltage while ignoring a clock signal; begin increasing a ramp voltage when the output voltage becomes lower than the reference voltage during the charging phase of the asynchronous mode while ignoring the clock signal; begin discharging the inductive element during a discharge phase of the asynchronous mode when the ramp voltage becomes equal or higher than the reference voltage while ignoring the clock signal; detecting a decrease of the output voltage by comparing an error signal representative of a difference between the output voltage and the reference voltage with a first threshold during the discharge phase of the asynchronous mode; when the decrease of the output voltage is detected during the discharge phase of the asynchronous mode, begin charging the inductive element when the clock signal transitions from a first state to a second state, and begin increasing the ramp voltage during a charging phase of a synchronous mode; and begin discharging the inductive element during a discharge phase of the synchronous mode when the ramp voltage becomes equal or higher than the reference voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.48837
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15666830', '12541596', '15840434', '10726259', '12700639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7243377951899126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4989150620065614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7017955218715776
- Mean Citation Score: 207.727688
- Max Citation Score: 236.05304
- Similarity Product: 149.214793449893

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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