PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16069024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["363", "023000"]

Abstract:
A resonant power converter including a synchronous rectifier for supplying a DC output voltage. The synchronous rectifier is configured for alternatingly connecting a resonant output voltage to positive and negative DC output nodes via first and second semiconductor switches, respectively, separated by intervening dead-time periods in accordance with first and second rectification control signals. A dead-time controller is coupled to the resonant output voltage or the resonant input voltage and configured for adaptively adjusting lengths of the dead-time periods via the first and second rectification control signals.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of adaptively controlling dead-time periods of a synchronous rectifier of a resonant power converter, said method comprising steps of:\n a) deriving first and second non-overlapping rectification control signals of the synchronous rectifier from a resonant output voltage or from a resonant input voltage of a resonant network of the resonant power converter, wherein the synchronous rectifier is coupled between positive and negative DC output voltage nodes of the resonant power converter, b) applying the first and second non-overlapping rectification control signals to control inputs of the synchronous rectifier to generate a DC output voltage by alternatingly connecting the resonant output voltage to the positive and negative DC output voltage nodes separated by intervening dead-time periods, c) monitoring at least one of the resonant output voltage and the resonant input voltage, d) detecting a feature or characteristic of a waveform of the resonant output voltage or of the resonant input voltage, f) adjusting lengths of the dead-time periods of the synchronous rectifier based on the detected feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80392
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14439412', '15126384', '16083809', '13276855', '15988984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7966016465173839
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950872407921322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7664502059448587
- Mean Citation Score: 257.26857400000006
- Max Citation Score: 264.0761
- Similarity Product: 223.290034476316

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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