PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16232255
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "084000"]

Abstract:
The power supply apparatus includes a switching element connected to a primary winding of a transformer to which an input voltage is applied; a feedback unit configured to output a first feedback voltage according to an output voltage, the output voltage induced in a secondary winding of the transformer and output to a load; a current detection unit for detecting a current flowing to the switching element and output a second feedback voltage according to the current detected; a limiting unit for limiting the first feedback voltage so that the current flowing to the switching element is below a predetermined current value; an output unit for outputting a driving signal for the switching element based on the first feedback voltage limited by the limiting unit and on the second feedback voltage; and a control unit for controlling the switching element according to the driving signal output from the output unit.

Claim (Index 12):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material; and a power supply apparatus configured to generate power for forming the image, wherein the power supply apparatus comprises: a rectification unit configured to rectify an AC voltage from an AC power supply to generate an input voltage; a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding; a first switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer to which the input voltage is applied; a feedback unit configured to output a first feedback voltage according to an output voltage, the output voltage being induced in the secondary winding of the transformer and output to a load; a current detection unit configured to detect a current flowing to the first switching element and output a second feedback voltage according to the current detected; a limiting unit configured to limit the first feedback voltage so that the current flowing to the first switching element is below a predetermined current value; an output unit configured to output a driving signal for the first switching element based on the first feedback voltage limited by the limiting unit and on the second feedback voltage; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the first switching element according to the driving signal output from the output unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13590207', '16168485', '16058289', '14546588', '16030499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8009704181018441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953081981945178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7704041961111114
- Mean Citation Score: 268.856096
- Max Citation Score: 277.46774
- Similarity Product: 252.52637896105645

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

Dataset: test