PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16249560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["363", "013000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for sequencing outputs in a multi-output power converter system are disclosed herein. During start-up multiple CC/CV outputs may be sequenced so that energy is first provided to a highest voltage secondary output and subsequently provided to a lowest voltage secondary output. Additionally, control may be exerted so as to concurrently and monotonically increase voltages during at least part of the start-up transient; and concurrent control may be further implemented using control circuitry and a variable reference generator. In some embodiments a variable reference may be generated from a capacitor voltage.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of sequencing output voltages in a multi-output switch-mode converter system comprising:\n increasing a voltage of a highest voltage secondary output; regulating the voltage of the highest voltage secondary output while increasing a voltage of a lowest voltage secondary output whereby the voltage of the highest voltage secondary output is greater than the voltage of the lowest voltage secondary output; and increasing the voltage of the highest voltage secondary output and the voltage of the lowest voltage secondary output whereby the voltage of the highest voltage secondary output is greater than the voltage of the lowest voltage secondary output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47761
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15994888', '15607075', '12152035', '12803513', '15612761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7932679622519018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025412718417506
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7641952932108868
- Mean Citation Score: 180.184278
- Max Citation Score: 300.7678
- Similarity Product: 260.70418757228856

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

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