PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["363", "021040"]

Abstract:
A gate drive adapter circuit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a charge pump circuit. The input circuit is configured to receive pulses suitable for controlling a silicon power transistor. The output circuit is coupled to the input circuit. The output circuit is configured to translate the pulses to voltages suitable for controlling a silicon-carbide power transistor. The charge pump circuit is coupled to the input circuit and to the output circuit. The charge pump circuit is configured to generate a negative voltage. The output circuit is configured to apply the negative voltage to translate the pulses.

Claim (Index 16):
A switch-mode power supply, comprising:\n a power supply controller comprising a silicon transistor gate driver; a gate drive adapter circuit coupled to a silicon transistor drive output of the power supply controller; and a silicon carbide power transistor coupled to a silicon carbide transistor drive output of the gate drive adapter circuit; wherein the gate drive adapter circuit comprises:\n a charge pump circuit configured to generate a negative voltage for controlling the silicon carbide power transistor, the negative voltage generated using pulses received via the silicon transistor drive output of the power supply controller; and \n an output circuit coupled to the charge pump circuit, the output circuit configured to translate pulses received via the silicon transistor drive output of the power supply controller to voltages for controlling the silicon carbide power transistor, wherein the voltages comprise the negative voltage generated by the charge pump circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11927784', '11498502', '15396539', '13112468', '14125501']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8108651163875892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4797395856184448
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777525633106748
- Mean Citation Score: 219.825734
- Max Citation Score: 228.31808
- Similarity Product: 183.00996987579344

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