PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["315", "291000"]

Abstract:
The ballast system includes constant current circuits, the power supply circuit, signal paths, a control circuit and pull-up circuits. A junction point of resistors in each of the pull-up circuits is connected to a corresponding signal path of the signal paths.

Claim (Index 1):
A ballast system, comprising:\n a plurality of constant current circuits configured to be connected in series with a respective one of a plurality of light source modules of a light source so that the constant current circuits and the light source modules constitute respective series circuits, the constant current circuits being configured to respectively adjust load currents flowing through the light source modules; a power supply circuit that includes a pair of output terminals between which the series circuits are connected in parallel, the power supply circuit being configured to apply a DC voltage across each of the series circuits through the pair of output terminals; a plurality of signal paths that provide respective feedback voltages corresponding to voltage drops across the constant current circuits to be respectively applied to the plurality of signal paths; a control circuit that is connected with the signal paths, the control circuit being configured to control the power supply circuit so that a target feedback voltage is maintained at a predefined target voltage value, thereby adjusting the DC voltage, the target feedback voltage being a lowest feedback voltage of the feedback voltages; and pull-up circuits, each of which includes a first end and a second end and at least two resistors connected in series between the first and second ends to constitute a voltage divider based upon which a predetermined voltage may be applied across the first and second ends, a junction point of the resistors in each of the pull-up circuits being connected to a corresponding signal path of the plurality of signal paths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48387
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12492016', '13464358', '12479089', '14306108', '12419879']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6630394430549844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808814422784698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.644823642977333
- Mean Citation Score: 187.610694
- Max Citation Score: 194.2221
- Similarity Product: 155.50216484216455

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

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