PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["327", "536000"]

Abstract:
A step-up power-converter has stack nodes, each of which connects to a stack switch and to a pump capacitor to form a switched-capacitor network. Among the stack nodes are first and second stack-nodes. The second stack-node drives a particular stack switch from the plurality of stack switches. When all of the stack switches are open, the first voltage causes the first stack-node to have a first stack-node voltage and causes the second stack-node to have a second stack-node voltage that is less than the first stack-node voltage. During the first state, the second stack-node voltage is insufficient to drive the particular stack-switch. During the second state, the second stack-node voltage is sufficient to drive the particular stack-switch. Causing the switched-capacitor network to transition from the first state to the second state includes, among other things, causing the second stack-node voltage to become sufficient to drive the particular stack-switch.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising a comparator having first and second inputs and an output, wherein said first input connects to a predetermined threshold voltage and wherein said second input connects to a voltage that depends on said second stack-node voltage, wherein said comparator outputs a signal indicative of whether said voltage that depends on said second stack-node voltage is equal to or greater than said predetermined threshold voltage, and wherein said signal selectively prevents said second stack-node voltage from being used to operate said particular stack-switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77586
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13839315', '13846046', '16085680', '14899887', '15590562']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7854537154998108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043155344630431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.757339897396134
- Mean Citation Score: 259.189398
- Max Citation Score: 277.21045
- Similarity Product: 188.3788052250624

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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