PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["320", "139000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for charging a battery are disclosed. The apparatus includes a LED member that includes a single LED that is suitable for emitting light of different colours, each colour corresponding to a different operating status of the apparatus, and an acoustic signalling device that is suitable for emitting an acoustic signal indicating a malfunction of the apparatus or the battery. The method includes a first battery heating and desulphation step during which the battery is supplied with current pulses having a maximum value that is considerably lower than the maximum value of the charging current in a subsequent second constant current charging step, each current pulse being generated when the current absorbed by the battery after the delivery of a previous current pulse falls below a minimum preset value.

Claim (Index 22):
The method according to  claim 20 , further comprising a fourth step of maintaining a charge of the battery, said fourth step comprising starting a constant voltage charging step if a voltage at the terminals of the battery reaches a preset minimum value and interrupting said constant voltage charging step when the voltage at the terminals of the battery reaches a preset maximum value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90411
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12305278', '12918697', '13824644', '11858582', '14856890']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7110863367686946
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4743218027397099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6874098833657961
- Mean Citation Score: 141.90887
- Max Citation Score: 151.6539
- Similarity Product: 101.37391690739392

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

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