PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "074000"]

Abstract:
A DC-DC converter circuit including at least: a first step down converter having a first pair of switching devices in a half bridge configuration. A second step down converter includes a second pair of switching devices in a half bridge configuration. The first and second step down converters are connected in parallel to an output node connected to an output coil and receive command signals. A feedback loop includes a synchronization module receiving the gate control signals of high side switching devices and adjusts as a function of the gate control signals a delay in a signal path from the command signal to each gate control signal of the high side switching device to synchronize the gate control signals.

Claim (Index 12):
A switching converter, comprising:\n a first converter circuit including a first high side switching device coupled to a switching node and configured to receive a first command signal, the first converter circuit configured to generate a first control signal based on the first command signal and to provide the first control signal to control switching of the first switching device; a second converter circuit including a second high side switching device coupled to the switching node and configured to receive a second command signal, the second converter circuit configured to generate a second control signal based on the first command signal and to provide the second control signal to control switching of the second switching device; and a synchronization circuit coupled to the first and second converter circuits and configured to receive an input command signal, the synchronization circuit configured to generate the first and second command signals based on the input command signal, each of the first and second command signals having a respective delay relative to the input command signal and the synchronization circuit configured to adjust the respective delays of the first and second command signals based on the first and second control signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13793
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11757181', '15159053', '14678932', '15627196', '14847989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7907916578502439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4612740512476577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7578398971899852
- Mean Citation Score: 139.41826799999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.42218
- Similarity Product: 106.90863854714512

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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