PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16327867
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
A mounting system for mounting a solar module to a support structure is described. The mounting system includes one or more module connectors that couple one or more support rails, to one or more module rails.

Claim (Index 18):
A process of mounting a module, said process comprising:\n obtaining one or more module rails, each of which includes an engaging surface and sidewalls that are configured to define, inside each of said module rail, a channel cavity, and wherein said sidewalls include one or more internal lip features that extend towards and along a length of said channel cavity, and wherein said internal lip features define one or more locking surfaces; securing to one or more modules one or more of said module rails to form one or more module connecting sub-assemblies; obtaining one or more support rails, each of which includes an extending portion; coupling to one or more support structures one or more of said support structure attachment rails for form one or more support connecting subassemblies; connecting, using one or more module connectors, one or more of said module subassemblies and one or more of said support connecting subassemblies, and wherein each of said module connectors includes a support structure receiving portion that has defined therein a receiving cavity having inner receiving surfaces, that further includes an outer boundary of a contacting surface, and that further includes one or more connecting portions, each of which includes one or more lockable surfaces; wherein, said connecting includes inserting one or more of said module connectors into one or more of said module rails such that said contacting surface of each of said module connectors contacts said engaging surface of one and/or another of said module rails and one or more of said lockable surfaces of each of said module connectors engages with one or more of said locking surfaces of one and/or another of said module rails to lock one or more of said module connectors inside one or more of said module rails, wherein said connecting further includes receiving said extending portion of each of said support rails inside each of said receiving cavity of each of said module connectors such that one or more of said module connectors couple to one or more of said support attachment rails.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69565
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11221556', '12899143', '10116384', '14003649', '15748653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8090096400658158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850718039095917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7766158564501934
- Mean Citation Score: 179.872676
- Max Citation Score: 195.24034
- Similarity Product: 133.29618503675346

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

Dataset: test