PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149679
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A digital average-input current-mode control loop for a DC/DC power converter. The power converter may be, for example, a buck converter, boost converter, or cascaded buck-boost converter. The purpose of the proposed control loop is to set the average converter input current to the requested current. Controlling the average input current can be relevant for various applications such as power factor correction (PFC), photovoltaic converters, and more. The method is based on predicting the inductor current based on measuring the input voltage, the output voltage, and the inductor current. A fast cycle-by-cycle control loop may be implemented. The conversion method is described for three different modes. For each mode a different control loop is used to control the average input current, and the control loop for each of the different modes is described. Finally, the algorithm for switching between the modes is disclosed.

Claim (Index 36):
The method of  claim 31 , wherein controlling the duty cycle comprises performing a triangle pulse width modulation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21622
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15495301', '14324820', '12187335', '13661503', '13773174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8424818670052817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.542616837740818
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8124953640788354
- Mean Citation Score: 376.055278
- Max Citation Score: 426.10464
- Similarity Product: 342.82563406831736

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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