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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Liu (US 2024/0297580).
Regarding claim 8, fig. 2A of Liu discloses a power converter, comprising: a switch circuit having an input voltage terminal [V1], an output voltage terminal [V2], and a plurality of control inputs, the switch circuit comprising a plurality of transistors and; a first capacitor [C1] having first and second terminals coupled to the switch circuit; a second capacitor [C2] having a first and second terminals coupled to the switch circuit; and a control signal generator [202] coupled to the plurality of control inputs, the control signal generator configured to sequence the plurality of transistors through first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth control phases for which: in the first control phase [e.g. as shown in fig. 2D], the first capacitor at least partially charges and the second capacitor at least partially discharges; in the second control phase [fig. 2F], the first and second capacitors at least partially charge; in the third control phase [fig. 2K], the second capacitor at least partially charges; in the fourth control phase [fig. 2E], the first capacitor at least partially discharges and the second capacitor at least partially charges; in the fifth control phase [fig. 2F], the first and second capacitors at least partially charge; and in the sixth control phase [fig. 2J], the first capacitor at least partially charges.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-7 are allowed.
Claims 9-12 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Pulawa-Podgurski describes a multi-phase hybrid power converter. Ge describes a switched bus based resonant switched capacitor converter. Lesso describes a DC-DC converter. Kesarwani describes a two-phase interleaved DC-DC converter.
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