PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["327", "100000"]

Abstract:
An output transistor ( 2 ) has a source connected to a VDD 1  and a drain connected to an output terminal ( 1 ). A pre-driver ( 3 ) receives a signal varying in accordance with a data input signal (DIN), and provides a gate signal (SG 1 ) to a gate of the output transistor ( 2 ), the gate signal (SG 1 ) transiting between the VDD 1  and a potential (VP) at a power source end ( 4 ). When a VDD 2  is output from an output node (N 1 ) and an assist signal (SA) makes a first transition corresponding to the transition of the gate signal (SG 1 ) from HIGH to LOW, the drive assist circuit ( 20 ) performs an assist operation in which a potential of the output node (N 1 ) is temporarily brought down from VDD 2.

Claim (Index 1):
An output circuit receiving a data input signal and outputting an output signal which varies in accordance with the data input signal, the output circuit comprising:\n an output terminal outputting the output signal; a p-type output transistor having a source connected to a first power source providing a first potential and a drain connected to the output terminal; a pre-driver connected to the first power source and a power source end supplied with a potential lower than the first potential, receiving a signal varying in accordance with the data input signal, and providing a gate signal to a gate of the p-type output transistor, the gate signal transiting between the first potential and the potential supplied to the power source end in accordance with the received signal; and a drive assist circuit connected to a second power source providing a second potential lower than the first potential, and supplying the second potential from an output node to the power source end, wherein the drive assist circuit receives as an assist signal the data input signal or a signal varying in accordance with the data input signal, and when the assist signal makes a first transition corresponding to the transition of the gate signal from a high level to a low level, the drive assist circuit performs an assist operation in which a potential at the output node is temporarily brought down from the second potential.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51515
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15727968', '11188740', '11710941', '14690816', '11414333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7659284874974259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4632900203611284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7356646407837961
- Mean Citation Score: 191.830102
- Max Citation Score: 193.33722
- Similarity Product: 160.40540220913053

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

Dataset: test