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 1):
An apparatus comprising a step-up power-converter, wherein said step-up power converter comprises a controller, a plurality of stack switches, and stack nodes, wherein each stack node connects to one of said stack switches and to a pump capacitor to form a switched-capacitor network that comprises an input terminal that receives a first voltage and an output terminal that outputs a second voltage that exceeds said first voltage, wherein said stack nodes comprise a first stack-node and a second stack-node, said second stack-node being configured for driving a particular stack switch from said plurality of stack switches, wherein said controller is configured to use said first voltage to cause said switched-capacitor network to transition from operating in a first state to operating in a second state by causing said switched-capacitor network to transition between a first state, in which said first voltage causes said first stack-node to have a first stack-node voltage and causes said second stack-node to have a second stack-node voltage that is less than said first stack-node voltage, said second stack-node voltage being insufficient to drive said particular stack switch, and a second state, in which said second stack-node has developed a voltage that is sufficient to drive 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): 0.7868912718286141
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493123040958934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7575144487416461
- Mean Citation Score: 259.189398
- Max Citation Score: 277.21045
- Similarity Product: 230.5520393114537

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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