PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A converter includes first and second coupled inductors. A first phase includes first high side and low side switches connected to the first inductor. A second phase includes second high side and low side switches connected to the second inductor. In discontinuous conduction mode, the controller determines, in response to the first high side switch being turned on and the second low side switch being turned off, that coupling between the first and second inductors is strong or weak based on whether body diode of the second low side switch will conduct if not prevented from conducting. The controller prevents second low side switch body diode conduction in response to the first high side switch being turned on when the coupling is strong, and does not prevent second low side switch body diode conduction in response to the first high side switch being turned on when the coupling is weak.

Claim (Index 17):
The multiphase DC-DC converter of  claim 14  wherein each of the first and second phases includes a plurality of level shifters that convert a control signal from the controller from a first supply rail to a second supply rail comprising a voltage lower than a switching node voltage and that output a plurality of control signals to drive the first and second plurality of switches, wherein the body diodes of the first and second low side switches do not conduct irrespective of strength of coupling between the first inductor and the second inductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83929
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15283915', '12841688', '13953317', '11131761', '12467916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.709071377222393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6196858850770108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7001328280078547
- Mean Citation Score: 347.550886
- Max Citation Score: 564.9456
- Similarity Product: 528.7984368736267

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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