PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["429", "159000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells, where each battery cell has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal. The battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a second alloy of the metal, nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, and a weld physically and electrically coupling the respective terminal to the bus bar. The indentation has a depth between 10% and 90% of the overall thickness, an area of the indentation is between 5% and 20% of an overall area of the body, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.

Claim (Index 20):
The battery module of  claim 16 , wherein the nickel plating comprises a phosphorous concentration of between 1 weight percent and 15 weight percent, wherein the weld comprises a diameter of between 1 mm and 5 mm, an area of between 5 square millimeters (mm2) and 15 mm2, a tensile strength of between 500 Newtons (N) and 800 N, a weld porosity of between 10% and 40%, and an electrical resistance of between 0.0005 and 0.002 milli-Ohms (m\u03a9).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72131
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14843570', '14872049', '14231013', '14620113', '15276470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8932848996973477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5509350145442679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8590499111820398
- Mean Citation Score: 308.29322799999994
- Max Citation Score: 422.02414000000016
- Similarity Product: 379.796158865626

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

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