PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["327", "536000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems of controlling a switched capacitor converter are provided. Upon determining that a voltage across a flying capacitor is above a first threshold, a first current is drawn from a first terminal of the flying capacitor by a first current source, and a second current is provided to a second terminal of the flying capacitor by a second current source. Upon determining that the voltage across the flying capacitor is below a second threshold, the first current is provided to the first terminal of the flying capacitor by the first current source, and the second current is drawn from the second terminal of the flying capacitor by the second current source. Upon determining that the voltage across the flying capacitor is above the second threshold and below the first threshold from the reference voltage, the first and second current sources are turned OFF.

Claim (Index 38):
A method of controlling a switched capacitor converter having a flying capacitor and an output capacitor, the method comprising:\n placing the switched capacitor converter in a pre-balancing mode wherein switching of one or more transistors of the switched capacitor converter is disabled; determining, when the switched capacitor converter is in the pre-balancing mode, a first voltage level of the flying capacitor; responsive to the determined first voltage level being above a first threshold voltage, drawing, using a first current source, a first current from the flying capacitor; responsive to the first voltage level being below a second threshold voltage, providing, using a second current source, a second current to the flying capacitor; and responsive to the first voltage level across the flying capacitor being above the second threshold voltage and below the first threshold voltage, turning off the first and second current sources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.16216
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465487', '15465339', '15465504', '15077080', '15116780']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8089306824701084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.553408346974887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7833784489205863
- Mean Citation Score: 345.35539200000005
- Max Citation Score: 426.3276
- Similarity Product: 390.2714017276526

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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