PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["136", "244000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein are ultra-thin flexible photovoltaic modules. The flexible modules meet UL and IEC safety requirements without needing one or more encapsulant layers. The no-encapsulant design reduces material usage and associated cost and eliminates thermal and mechanical stress imparted by the encapsulant. In some embodiments, a flexible module includes photovoltaic cells enclosed between sealing sheets, wires partially embedded in wire carriers and disposed such that the wires interconnect the photovoltaic cells. The wire carriers include multiple polymeric layers. Adhesive from module components such as sealing sheets and wire carriers bonds the components together.

Claim (Index 1):
A photovoltaic module comprising:\n a transparent flexible top sheet; a flexible bottom sheet; a plurality of photovoltaic cells disposed between the transparent flexible top sheet and flexible bottom sheet; and a plurality of individual wire assemblies overlaying the photovoltaic cells to interconnect the photovoltaic cells; wherein there is no encapsulant separating the plurality of individual wire assemblies from the transparent flexible top sheet and the flexible bottom sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50746
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12556460', '12464721', '14357432', '10351299', '12684595']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.786689887079954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798981694771603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7560107153196747
- Mean Citation Score: 185.103682
- Max Citation Score: 199.14763
- Similarity Product: 149.43593160404205

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

Dataset: test