PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913423
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["323", "211000"]

Abstract:
A control unit for a switching converter has an inductor element coupled to an input and a switch element coupled to the inductor element. The control unit generates a command signal with a switching period to control the switching of the switch element and to determine a first time period where an inductor current is flowing in the inductor element for storing energy and a second time period where energy is transferred to a load. The second time period has an end portion where the inductor current drops to zero. The control unit determines the duration of the first time period based on a comparison between a sensing voltage, indicative of the peak value of the inductor current, and a reference voltage. A pre-distortion stage pre-distorts the reference voltage in order to compensate for a corresponding distortion on an input current of the converter compared to a desired sinusoidal characteristic.

Claim (Index 8):
The control unit according to  claim 7  wherein, said capacitor element discharges through said resistor element during said switching period except during said end portion of said second time period during which said capacitor element is charged by said charging current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15383844', '14957329', '14868104', '13749539', '14661968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.761306574500082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5066335066201846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7358392677120923
- Mean Citation Score: 249.43886000000003
- Max Citation Score: 288.6823
- Similarity Product: 207.20686937664743

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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