PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["361", "105000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a control device suitable for use in a vehicle includes providing a housing, a circuit board, and thermal fuse. A first contact of the fuse is soldered at the circuit board at a first solder joint and a second contact is soldered at the circuit board at a second solder joint. During assembly of the circuit board at the housing, an engaging tab of the thermal fuse engages the housing whereby the housing urges the engaging tab and the first contact of the thermal fuse in a direction away from a surface of the circuit board. When the control device is assembled and in use, and when a temperature exceeds a threshold temperature so that the first solder joint at the first contact sufficiently melts, the first contact moves away from the circuit board to break the electrical connection at the first solder joint.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of manufacturing a control device suitable for use in a vehicle, said method comprising:\n providing a housing; providing a circuit board having a circuit element disposed thereat; providing a thermal fuse having a first contact and a second contact; soldering the first contact at the circuit board at a first solder joint; soldering the second contact at the circuit board at a second solder joint; wherein the circuit element is disposed at the circuit board in closer proximity to the first solder joint than to the second solder joint; wherein, after soldering the first and second contacts at the circuit board, the thermal fuse is held in a flexed state via the first and second solder joints, and wherein the thermal fuse is biased towards an unflexed state; assembling the circuit board at the housing; during assembly of the circuit board at the housing, engaging an engaging tab of the thermal fuse with a portion of the housing whereby the portion of the housing urges the engaging tab and the first contact of the thermal fuse in a direction away from a surface of the circuit board; wherein, when the engaging tab engages the portion of the housing during assembly of the circuit board at the housing, the thermal fuse flexes so that the engaging tab exerts a force at the circuit element; wherein the engaging tab comprises a curved portion of the thermal fuse, and wherein the portion of the housing comprises a curved surface that engages the engaging tab to urge flexing of the engaging tab during assembly of circuit board at the housing; and wherein, when the control device is assembled and in use, and when a temperature at the circuit element exceeds a threshold temperature so that the first solder joint at the first contact sufficiently melts, the biasing of the thermal fuse towards the unflexed state urges and moves the first contact away from the circuit board to break the electrical connection at the first solder joint and between circuitry electrically connected to the first contact and circuitry electrically connected to the second contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14810797', '15460663', '14290026', '15613358', '13887724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8191828014294218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335582971792944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7906203510044091
- Mean Citation Score: 269.127848
- Max Citation Score: 366.7003
- Similarity Product: 323.58514439972635

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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