PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["429", "508000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a fuel cell includes the steps of: (1) providing a first bipolar plate and a second bipolar plate; (2) applying a first microseal to the first bipolar plate at a first metal bead seal region; (3) applying a first contaminant seal to the first microseal and the first metal bead seal region of the first bipolar plate, the first contaminant seal being configured to protect the first metal bead seal region from a debris piece; (4) assembling a UEA having a subgasket onto the first bipolar plate with a debris piece engaging with the first contaminant seal; and (5) compressing the second bipolar plate onto the first bipolar plate with the subgasket in-between while urging the first contaminant seal and the debris piece away from the first metal bead seal region. Alternatively, the first and second contaminant seals may be applied to the subgasket.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for manufacturing a fuel cell, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a first bipolar plate, a second bipolar plate, and a UEA having a subgasket with a first side and a second side; applying a first contaminant seal to a first side of the subgasket and applying a second contaminant seal to a second side of the subgasket, the first and second contaminant seals being configured to protect the first and second metal bead seal regions respectively from a debris; assembling the UEA having a subgasket between the first and second bipolar plates; and compressing the second bipolar plate onto the first bipolar plate with the subgasket in-between wherein the first and second contaminant seals and the debris are urged away from the first and second metal bead seal regions respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78333
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15019152', '15019100', '12821701', '15714267', '12050652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8628175333678318
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141382010831737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8279496001393661
- Mean Citation Score: 283.964338
- Max Citation Score: 316.3316700000001
- Similarity Product: 260.3156467384709

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test