PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A hot sensor detects a temperature of an output transistor and a cold sensor detects a temperature of a position distant from the output transistor. When the temperature of the hot sensor rises more than a reference temperature, a temperature detecting circuit asserts an overtemperature detecting signal, and when a temperature difference between the hot sensor and the cold sensor is more than a reference temperature difference, the above circuit asserts the temperature difference detecting signal. A current limiting circuit generates a limited current signal sequentially variable with the negative temperature characteristic for the temperature of the cold sensor and controls a drive current of the output transistor to a current value depending on the signal level of the limited current signal when the overtemperature detecting signal is asserted.

Claim (Index 8):
The device according to  claim 7 ,\n wherein the current limiting circuit includes a current sense circuit which detects a drive current flowing in the output transistor and generates a voltage signal in proportion to size of the drive current, and a first comparator which compares the voltage signal from the current sense circuit with the limited current signal from the selecting circuit and controls on and off the output transistor according to the comparison result.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64706
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14865170', '15587177', '12677707', '10980293', '14822460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7206649019302995
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787748279269124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6964758945299608
- Mean Citation Score: 175.202072
- Max Citation Score: 196.81769
- Similarity Product: 155.72140201810657

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

Dataset: test