PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["361", "720000"]

Abstract:
A power tool and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) for the power tool. The PCBA includes, for example, a printed circuit board (“PCB”), a heat sink, a spacer between the PCB and the heat sink, and a gap pad. The PCB and the heat sink are fastened to one another via fasteners so the spacer absorbs excess forces torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners. The gap pad is placed within an opening or recess of the spacer to contact one or more FETs on the PCB. In some embodiments, the PCBA includes a second heat sink or rigid member on the opposite side of the PCB than the spacer to further distribute excess torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners.

Claim (Index 14):
A power tool comprising:\n a motor; and a printed circuit board assembly (\u201cPCBA\u201d) electrically connected to the motor, the PCBA including\n a printed circuit board (\u201cPCB\u201d) including a switch, \n a heat sink operable to dissipate heat generated by the switch, the heat sink coupled to the PCB by one or more fasteners, \n a rigid spacer located between the PCB and the heat sink, wherein the rigid spacer forms an interior recess such that the interior recess has a perimeter defined by an inner wall of the rigid spacer, and \n a gap pad positioned within the interior recess and engaged with the switch and the heat sink, wherein, before the gap pad is positioned within the interior recess and engaged with the switch and the heat sink, a height of the rigid spacer is less than a combined height of the gap pad and the switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15203895', '15603837', '15645090', '14295703', '13841246']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8387320588674841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6047467986831786
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8153335328490536
- Mean Citation Score: 299.74899
- Max Citation Score: 539.53485
- Similarity Product: 511.44408866363176

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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