PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["320", "112000"]

Abstract:
A battery pack includes an arrangement of battery cells organized in battery groups connected in series, with each group having one or more battery units connected in parallel, and each battery unit comprising one or more series-connected battery cells connected to a battery switch. Charging of the battery pack uses pulse charging. The charging pulses provided to the battery units can be determined based on one or more measured characteristics of battery cells comprising the battery unit so that charging of the battery units can be optimized according to those characteristics. The charging pulses provided to each battery group are timed so that there is an uninterrupted flow of charging current through all the battery groups at all times.

Claim (Index 16):
The control circuit of  claim 15 , wherein the controller is further configured to overlap the ON time of one or more of the pulsed switching signals in each of the battery groups to provide the current path for an uninterrupted flow of charging current through the plurality of series-connected battery groups of the battery pack during charging of the battery pack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01613
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12416072', '15644498', '11034624', '12360141', '14657101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7504466433533431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4728695321597385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7226889322339827
- Mean Citation Score: 166.03153600000005
- Max Citation Score: 171.98086999999995
- Similarity Product: 123.94746822583728

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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