PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["323", "234000"]

Abstract:
A circuit includes a reference voltage, a switched mode power supply (SMPS) loop filter circuit configured to provide an inductor current limit based on the reference voltage, and a trigger circuit configured to enable or disable the SMPS loop filter circuit. When the SMPS loop filter circuit is enabled, an output of the circuit is based on output of the SMPS loop filter circuit and output voltage of the SMPS. When the SMPS loop filter circuit is disabled, the SMPS current control circuit output is based on an estimated current limit that is increased when load current demand will increase and decreased when load current demand will decrease.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for controlling a switched-mode power supply (SMPS), said method comprising the steps of:\n providing an operational amplifier having an output that can be enabled and disabled; providing a voltage control loop that compares a SMPS output voltage to a first voltage reference and provides a control voltage from the output of the operational amplifier to a comparator that controls voltage to an inductor of the SMPS based upon the control voltage and a SMPS output current; providing a timer having an input coupled to a trigger signal and an output coupled to the operational amplifier, wherein when the timer is not timing the output of the operational amplifier is enabled, and when timing the output of the operational amplifier is disabled; and providing a second voltage reference that is coupled to the comparator when the output of the operational amplifier is disabled.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38776
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13158874', '13159000', '13682554', '14080151', '12839012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7286319210695391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4721600229039112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7029847312529763
- Mean Citation Score: 192.362262
- Max Citation Score: 196.71098
- Similarity Product: 150.46539501262666

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

Dataset: test