PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["429", "002000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microbial fuel cell which is capable of stably generating electricity and in which a pump or the like for fuel supply is not necessary and low oxygen concentration is maintained in the vicinity of a fuel electrode. A microbial fuel cell ( 1 A) includes: a housing ( 2 ) that defines a closed space isolated from an external environment; and an ion-conductive layer ( 5 ) that divides the closed space into a fuel chamber ( 3 ) and an air chamber ( 4 ), the fuel chamber ( 3 ) being configured to have therein a microorganism-containing substance ( 10 ), the air chamber ( 4 ) containing oxygen therein. The housing ( 2 ) has, in at least part thereof, a hole ( 6 ) through which the external environment and the fuel chamber ( 3 ) are in communication with each other. The housing ( 2 ) is provided with an openable/closeable member ( 7 ) configured to be able to open and close the hole ( 6 ).

Claim (Index 6):
The microbial fuel cell according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the housing is constituted by a first housing having a first opening and a second housing having a second opening, the housing being obtained by inserting the second housing into the first opening of the first housing such that one end of the second housing is inserted first, the one end being an end at which the second opening is situated; the first housing has a space therein and the second housing has a space therein, the space inside the first housing and the space inside the second housing being isolated from the external environment except for the first opening and the second opening, respectively; the space inside the first housing serves as the fuel chamber; the second housing has therein the negative electrode, the electrolyte layer, the positive electrode, and the air chamber which are arranged in this order from the second opening; in the first opening, an area formed between the first housing and the second housing serves as the hole; and the openable/closeable member is provided so as to protrude from an outer surface of the second housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15122425', '13950987', '12145722', '12874295', '15128517']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8767636444850987
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4783698851302091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8369242685496097
- Mean Citation Score: 194.915484
- Max Citation Score: 210.58961
- Similarity Product: 162.11369082954226

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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