PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["429", "157000"]

Abstract:
Battery corrosive electrolyte leakage is reduced by absorbing forces generated during impact of a device holding the batteries and preventing such forces from being transferred to terminal contacts of batteries held in a series configuration. Contacts of batteries connected in series are protected by use of shock absorbing spacers while a terminal end shock absorber is positioned so that the terminal end will be cushioned when a force is applied to the series configuration causing the batteries to move relative to the terminal battery.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for minimizing battery corrosive electrolyte leaks in a flashlight powered by a plurality of cylindrical batteries held in a series configuration in the barrel of the flashlight, wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical batteries is comprised of a cylindrical metal can which holds a cathode, an anode and a current collector, said can having a first end with a button contact having a first polarity and a second end with a substantially flat contact having a second polarity, said plurality of cylindrical batteries having a terminal battery in which its second end is a terminal end of the series configuration which is held proximate to a tail cap that screws into a tail cap end of the barrel, comprising the steps of:\n for at least one pair of cylindrical batteries held in series in the flashlight barrel, placing a shock absorbing spacer between said each pair of cylindrical batteries so that there the same number of shock absorbing spacers as the plurality of cylindrical batteries less one; wherein the shock absorbing spacer has a thickness sufficient to prevent the first end of the second cylindrical battery from contacting the second end of the first cylindrical battery.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56364
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14869628', '15171392', '14869962', '15148505', '10404415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9020953364414396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5859552460878545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8704813274060812
- Mean Citation Score: 416.255312
- Max Citation Score: 496.4557
- Similarity Product: 488.7467539423705

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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