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 17):
The battery module of  claim 16 , wherein the weld is produced according to a process, comprising:\n disposing the bus bar over the terminal such that a first surface of the bus bar is adjacent to a second surface of the terminal; directing a predetermined amount of point specific energy from a power source toward the indentation to form a weld spot; and melting at least a portion of the first surface of the bus bar at the weld spot to form the weld such that the terminal and the bus bar are coupled to one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72131
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14843570', '14872049', '14231013', '14620113', '15276470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8824932994293151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.544193653525436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8486633348389272
- Mean Citation Score: 308.29322799999994
- Max Citation Score: 422.02414000000016
- Similarity Product: 330.9606179879118

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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