PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16402586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "159000"]

Abstract:
An inter-linkable LED security light is disclosed which is configured with an LED load, a detection device, a switching circuitry, a microcontroller and a wireless transmitter. When an external control signal is detected by the detection device, the external control signal is converted into a message carrying sensing signal and the microcontroller responsively operates to output a control signal to turn on the security light for a predetermined time duration, synchronously the microcontroller also manages to transmit the message sensing signal thru the wireless transmitter to control the same lighting performance of at least one neighboring light. The detection device is optionally an active infrared ray motion sensor, a passive infrared ray motion sensor, an ultrasonic wave sensor, a microwave sensor capable of detecting a motion intrusion or a photo sensor capable of detecting a light intensity of a detection area where the lighting apparatus is positioned.

Claim (Index 11):
A lighting apparatus, comprising:\n a light emitting unit configured with an LED load including a plurality of LEDs; a loading and power control unit; at least one detection device, for detecting at least one external control signal and converting said at least one external control signal into at least one message carrying sensing signal with at least one signal format interpretable to said microcontroller for performing at least one illumination performance of said light emitting unit; and a wireless signal transmitter to convert said at least one message carrying sensing signal into at least one wireless control signal to activate at least one neighboring lighting apparatus for remotely and synchronously performing said at least one illumination performance; wherein the loading and power control unit further comprises a microcontroller and a switching circuitry, wherein said switching circuitry comprises at least one semiconductor switching element, wherein said microcontroller is electrically coupled with said at least one semiconductor switching element, said at least one detection device and said wireless signal transmitter; wherein said microcontroller outputs a control signal to control a conduction state or a cutoff state of said semiconductor switching element according to said at least one signal format of said at least one message carrying sensing signal received from said at least one detection device; wherein when said at least one controllable switching element is in said conduction state, said microcontroller further controls an average electric power transmission level from said power source to said LED load according to said at least one signal format of said at least one message carrying sensing signal received from said at least one detection device; wherein said at least one signal format of said at least one message carrying sensing signal is a short voltage signal, a long voltage signal or a plurality of short voltage signals, a plurality of long voltage signals or a combination of said short voltage signal and said long voltage signal; wherein said short voltage signal and said long voltage signal are defined either by a time length of a constant voltage signal generated or by said time length of a series of pulse signals consecutively generated; wherein when said microcontroller receives said at least one message carrying sensing signal, said microcontroller operates to activate a corresponding process for performing said at least one illumination performance of various illumination performance modes including at least an on/off switch control mode, a dimming control mode and a delay shutoff mode; wherein said LED load is confined to a configuration with LEDs in series and/or in parallel connections such that when incorporated with a level setting of said DC power, an electric current passing through each LED of said LED load remains at a safety level such that a voltage V across each LED complies with an operating constraint of V th <V<V max  featuring electrical characteristics of each LED, wherein V th  is a minimum threshold voltage required to trigger each LED to start emitting light and V max  is a maximum operating voltage across each LED to avoid a thermal damage or burning out of LED construction; wherein when said LED load is configured with a plurality of N number LEDs or N sets of LEDs electrically connected in series, a working voltage V N  across said LED load is confined in a domain between a minimum voltage equal to the sum of the threshold voltages of all LEDs or sets of LEDs electrically connected in series and a maximum voltage equal to the sum of the maximum voltages of all LEDs or sets of LEDs electrically connected in series, identically expressed as N\u00d7V th <V N <N\u00d7V max. ; and wherein said microcontroller is a programmable integrated circuit device or an application specific integrated circuit for generating said control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15702871', '15161902', '14579174', '15095540', '15292395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7513714709222512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5732037592262319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7335546997526493
- Mean Citation Score: 434.556024
- Max Citation Score: 461.58392
- Similarity Product: 388.3168280660009

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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