PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16244954
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["324", "537000"]

Abstract:
Fault detection circuitry and a corresponding method are disclosed. A count value that is indicative of the switching period of a PWM signal is determined and it is determined whether this count value is between a first threshold and a second threshold. An error signal is generated when the switching period is not between the first and the second threshold. A count value that is indicative of the switch-on duration of the PWM signal is determined and compared with a switch-on threshold in order to determine whether the switch-on duration is greater than a maximum switch-on duration. A count value that is indicative of the switch-off duration of the PWM signal is determined and compared with a switch-off threshold in order to determine whether the switch-off duration is greater than a maximum switch-off duration. Error signals can be generated when the durations are greater than the maximum durations.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising resetting the magnitude of the counter signal at the beginning of the period of the PWM signal to the initial value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96154
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15389335', '14006622', '15163895', '14042341', '12970612']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5106178564063498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5511595099543156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5146720217611465
- Mean Citation Score: 233.681862
- Max Citation Score: 429.6257
- Similarity Product: 310.69404881388544

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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