PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "277000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a power transistor to conduct a load current from a supply voltage node to an output node and a current sense circuit coupled to the power transistor. The current sense circuit generates a current sense current proportional to the load current. A temperature sense circuit is included to generate a temperature sense voltage proportional to the temperature of the power FET. A thermal limit circuit is coupled to the temperature sense circuit. A current limit circuit is coupled to the current sense circuit and to the thermal limit circuit. The current limit circuit generates a control signal on a current limit circuit output node. The control signal is responsive to the current sense current and to a first current from the thermal limit circuit. The current limit circuit output node is coupled to a control input of the power transistor.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a power transistor to conduct a load current from a supply voltage node to an output node; a current sense circuit coupled to the power transistor, the current sense circuit to generate a current sense current proportional to the load current; a temperature sense circuit to generate a temperature sense voltage proportional to the temperature of the power FET, the temperature sense circuit having a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) element that senses an internal core temperature of the power transistor; a thermal limit circuit coupled to the temperature sense circuit; and a current limit circuit coupled to the current sense circuit and to the thermal limit circuit, the current limit circuit to generate a control signal on a current limit circuit output node, the control signal responsive to the current sense current and to a first current from the thermal limit circuit, the current limit circuit output node coupled to a control input of the power transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.775
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14922670', '15341205', '16001518', '15596465', '14928703']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7262436409245443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4779128965202844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7014105664841184
- Mean Citation Score: 202.884076
- Max Citation Score: 218.19998
- Similarity Product: 169.32177184938075

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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