PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["327", "109000"]

Abstract:
In a switching converter having an inductive load, a current may flow through the body diode of a transistor even though the gate of the transistor is being controlled to keep the transistor off. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is turned on, a reverse recovery current flows in the reverse direction through the body diode. To reduce switching losses associated with such current flows, a gate driver integrated circuit detects when current flow through the body diode rises above a threshold current. The gate driver integrated circuit then controls the transistor to turn on. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is made to turn on, the gate driver first turns the transistor off. When the gate-to-source voltage of the turning off transistor drops below a threshold voltage, then the gate driver integrated circuit allows and controls the other transistor to turn on.

Claim (Index 8):
The gate driver integrated circuit of  claim 4 , wherein the V GS  monitoring circuitry is for detecting when a gate-to-source voltage on the high-side transistor has fallen below a predetermined threshold voltage and this falling of the gate-to-source voltage is due to the high-side driver logic circuitry causing the high-side transistor to be turned off, and wherein the high-side transistor was on and conductive immediately prior to this being turned off during a time when a digital logic low value was present on the high-side driver digital control signal input terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15901829', '15088124', '13453649', '15423421', '15686161']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8014711328361716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5699553763037531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7783195571829298
- Mean Citation Score: 271.418332
- Max Citation Score: 478.42197
- Similarity Product: 390.8435030865133

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

Dataset: test