PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["363", "015000"]

Abstract:
A DC power supply includes a point-of-load (PoL) regulator providing power to a load with a desired efficiency only when a PoL input voltage is in a first sub-range of a specified larger system input voltage range. The supply has an auxiliary circuit with an output in series with the supply input, generating an auxiliary voltage and adding it to the DC supply voltage to form a boosted supply voltage. Switching circuitry connects the supply input to the PoL input to apply a DC supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the supply voltage is in the first sub-range, and connects the output of the auxiliary circuit to the PoL input to apply the boosted supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the supply voltage is outside the first sub-range, maintaining the PoL input voltage within the first sub-range.

Claim (Index 1):
A DC power supply for providing DC power to a load at a DC load voltage substantially lower than a nominal DC supply voltage at a supply input, comprising:\n a point-of-load (PoL) regulator having a PoL output coupled to the load, the PoL regulator being configured and operative to provide DC power to the load (1) at a first efficiency when a PoL input voltage applied to a PoL input of the PoL regulator is in a first sub-range of a specified input voltage range for the DC supply voltage, and (2) at a second efficiency lower than the first efficiency when the PoL input voltage is in a second sub-range distinct from the first sub-range in the specified input voltage range; an auxiliary circuit having an output connected in series with the supply input, the auxiliary circuit being configured and operative to generate an auxiliary voltage and add it to the DC supply voltage to form a boosted supply voltage; and switching circuitry configured and operative in response to a level of the DC supply voltage to (1) connect the supply input to the PoL input to apply the DC supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the DC supply voltage is in the first sub-range, and (2) connect the output of the auxiliary circuit to the PoL input to apply the boosted supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the DC supply voltage is in the second sub-range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75926
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15134478', '10802379', '15118369', '15819507', '13070959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8267394768644679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003572478421057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941012539622317
- Mean Citation Score: 237.441764
- Max Citation Score: 245.12773
- Similarity Product: 163.77426333037198

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