PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16395861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["341", "155000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure provide a time-to-voltage converter (TVC). The TVC can include a 555 timer integrated circuit (IC), and a charging circuit including a constant current source and a capacitor connected in series. The capacitor can be connected to a discharge pin of the 555 timer IC. The TVC can further include a trigger circuit and a reset circuit to receive a start signal and a stop signal, respectively, from an input line, and accordingly generate a trigger signal or a reset signal to trigger or reset the 555 timer IC. A switch can be configured to, under control of an output signal of the 555 timer IC, connect the input line with the reset circuit. A voltage across the capacitor when the 555 timer IC is reset indicates a time interval corresponding to the start and stop signals.

Claim (Index 12):
A time-to-voltage converter (TVC), comprising:\n a 555 timer integrated circuit (IC); a charging circuit including a constant current source and a first capacitor connected in series, the first capacitor being connected to a discharge pin and a threshold pin of the 555 timer IC; a second capacitor connected to a control pin of the 555 timer IC configured to filter noise between a power supply and a ground; a trigger circuit including an RC differentiator circuit and configured to,\n receive a start signal from an input line, and \n generate a trigger signal corresponding to a voltage transition in the start signal to trigger the 555 timer IC; \n a reset circuit including an RC differentiator circuit and configured to,\n receive a stop signal from the input line via an AND gate, and \n generate a reset signal corresponding to the stop signal to reset the 555 timer IC; and \n the AND gate with output of the 555 timer IC and the input line as input, wherein a voltage across the first capacitor indicates a time interval corresponding to the start and stop signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32836
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15925227', '16395820', '13069151', '13299912', '12619548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5867716426511699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.579555746097873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5860500529958402
- Mean Citation Score: 288.171242
- Max Citation Score: 461.2409
- Similarity Product: 423.7008773230792

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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