PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188776
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["136", "246000"]

Abstract:
A photovoltaic (PV) module clip, and methods of fastening a PV module to a structural member using the PV module clip, are described. In an example, a PV module clip includes a toe portion interconnected with several legs by a neck portion. The toe portion may be inserted through several aligned holes of a PV module frame and a mounting assembly strut to an underside of the strut. The neck portion may extend upward from the toe portion through the aligned holes to the legs above the strut. The legs may extend around a portion of the strut in a tensioned state, and engage with a retaining feature to hold the legs in the tensioned state. Accordingly, the legs may clamp the PV module to the mounting assembly.

Claim (Index 9):
A photovoltaic (PV) module assembly, comprising:\n a mounting assembly comprising a toe opening and a retaining feature; a PV module comprising a PV laminate and a PV module toe opening located at an outer perimeter of the PV laminate; and, a PV module clip including:\n a toe portion having an upper toe surface extending along a lateral plane between a distal tip and one or more toe junctions, \n a plurality of legs on opposite sides of a vertical plane, wherein the vertical plane extends through the distal tip orthogonal to the lateral plane, and wherein each leg extends from a distal leg junction above the lateral plane to a proximal leg junction laterally outward from the distal leg junction relative to the vertical plane, and \n one or more neck portions extending upward from the one or more toe junctions at the lateral plane to the distal leg junctions. \n wherein the toe portion of the PV module clip extends through the toe opening of the PV module and the toe opening of the mounting assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38983
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15254980', '15255001', '14357681', '14923373', '15254988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7781048152789252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335778561077305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7536521193618058
- Mean Citation Score: 223.498056
- Max Citation Score: 370.93643
- Similarity Product: 310.5052804854047

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test