PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A switching regulator having adjustable inductor current threshold employs a control method which includes: (S 1 ) determining whether an output voltage is greater than a reference voltage or determining whether a switching frequency of the power stage is smaller than a predetermined lower frequency limit, and (S 2 ) when it is determined yes in the step (S 1 ), adjusting the inductor current threshold, such that the switching regulator operates under a pseudo discontinuous conduction mode (PDCM) wherein the switching frequency is not smaller than the predetermined lower frequency limit. Consequently, when the switching regulator operates under a light load mode, an optimum balance between a total power consumption and switching noise interference will be ensured.

Claim (Index 7):
The control method of the switching regulator of  claim 1 , wherein before the first power transistor and the second power transistor are turned OFF, the first power transistor or the second power transistor whichever is able to cause the inductor current to be raised up is ON until the inductor current is raised up to zero, and then the first power transistor and the second power transistor are turned OFF.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79452
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13037014', '14071305', '14253520', '12848480', '12554076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7745048625491151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5044083668912179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7474952129833254
- Mean Citation Score: 276.487788
- Max Citation Score: 282.7723
- Similarity Product: 202.88112810667752

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

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