PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16132067
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["361", "093800"]

Abstract:
A method for improving safety of voltage regulator is disclosed. In order to improve safety of a voltage regulator, a MOS-FET is disposed on a source power lane that receives power supplied from a DC power supply. A set of voltage regulators is connected to a set of fork power lanes, correspondingly, branching off from the source power lane. PTC thermistors are disposed on a surface or in the vicinity of semiconductor chips of the voltage regulators. When temperature at any one of the PTC thermistors increases, a protection controller turns off the MOS-FET. When temperature detected by a temperature sensor incorporated within the semiconductor chip has increased, each of the voltage regulators turns off the MOS-FET via a base management controller.

Claim (Index 4):
A sub-system for a computer comprising:\n a processor and a system memory; a protection switch disposed on a power lane receiving power from a DC power supply; a plurality of semiconductor chips for supplying power, each received from said power lane including a switching circuit; a plurality of voltage regulators, wherein one of said voltage regulators includes a switching element to supply power to said processor and said system memory, and branching off from said power lane; a first temperature sensor for detecting temperature of said voltage regulators; and a first protection circuit containing a first temperature sensor that detects temperature inside said semiconductor chip; a second protection circuit including a second temperature sensor that detects the surface temperature of said semiconductor chip; and a controller that makes said protective switch an OFF state according to temperature which said first protection circuit or said second protection circuit detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95588
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11647427', '12180329', '10670458', '14294045', '15435946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8236641099493014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685943369597287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7881571326503441
- Mean Citation Score: 155.47557
- Max Citation Score: 156.89844
- Similarity Product: 112.78935463093042

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