PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748997
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A lighting circuit includes a voltage converter configured to receive a DC voltage to perform voltage conversion and supply a drive current to a light source unit including a light emitting element, a bypass switch configured to form a bypass path through which the drive current bypasses the light emitting element, and a controller configured to control the voltage converter and the bypass switch. The light source unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements connected in series. The bypass path includes at least one bypass switch which are connected in parallel with at least one of the light emitting elements. When turning on the light emitting element of the light source unit, the controller controls the voltage conversion to start in a state where the bypass switch is turned on, and then, turns off the bypass switch to turn on the light emitting element.

Claim (Index 4):
A lighting circuit comprising:\n a voltage converter configured to receive a DC voltage to perform voltage conversion and to supply a drive current to a light source unit which includes a plurality of light emitting elements connected in series; a bypass path which includes a plurality of bypass switches which are connected in parallel with the light emitting elements and are connected in series; and a controller configured to control the voltage converter and the bypass switches, wherein, when turning off all of the light emitting elements from a state where at least one light emitting element is on, the controller controls the voltage conversion to stop after turning on all of the bypass switches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52459
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14561829', '15713624', '15686520', '14796011', '15042610']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7333433310149063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813003016364692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7081390280770626
- Mean Citation Score: 218.81381800000003
- Max Citation Score: 222.93565
- Similarity Product: 183.3567167907864

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

Dataset: test