PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["429", "428000"]

Abstract:
The present invention comprises a plurality of fuel cells connected to each other in series, and a reformer configured to reform raw fuel, wherein reformed fuel by the reformer is supplied to a first stage of the plurality of fuel cells, and the fuel cell on the first stage is provided with a methane reaction suppressing function which suppresses reaction of methane included in the reformed fuel to a larger extent than at least one fuel cell on a second and later stages. Suppressing temperature drop due to endothermic reaction in the fuel cell on the first stage can improve the efficiency of electric power generation of the fuel cell system having the plurality of fuel cells arranged in series.

Claim (Index 10):
The fuel cell system according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a discharged fuel circulation mechanism for supplying, in a circulating manner, the reformer with fuel containing water discharged from a fuel cell located on the last stage of the plurality of fuel cells.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95312
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10553213', '14197613', '14207690', '12297196', '14438346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.860011313094777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4646464252129948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8204748243065987
- Mean Citation Score: 169.746096
- Max Citation Score: 175.01606999999996
- Similarity Product: 134.96811637500105

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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