PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896180
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "064000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

Claim (Index 37):
A photovoltaic module comprising:\n a first glass sheet; a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet; a second glass sheet disposed over the photovoltaic device, the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet thereby defining a gap at least a portion of which is spanned by the photovoltaic device; a layer of melted glass powder sealing the gap between the first and second glass sheets at an edge region thereof, the layer of melted glass powder consisting essentially of glass and being free of glass frit, frit material, organic fillers, binders, and solvents; and a conductive bus ribbon electrically coupled to the photovoltaic device and extending out from the first and second glass sheets through the sealed edge region, wherein, at the sealed edge region, the conductive bus ribbon is disposed in contact with the layer of melted glass powder, but not with the first or second glass sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986983', '14457922', '14236824', '16062360', '14694121']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8556801315223451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5352911320297996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8236412315730905
- Mean Citation Score: 238.336744
- Max Citation Score: 364.84338
- Similarity Product: 324.0447294357276

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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