PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["429", "159000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells, where each battery cell has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal. The battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a second alloy of the metal, nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, and a weld physically and electrically coupling the respective terminal to the bus bar. The indentation has a depth between 10% and 90% of the overall thickness, an area of the indentation is between 5% and 20% of an overall area of the body, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72131
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14843570', '14872049', '14231013', '14620113', '15276470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.895517507536281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5407777335799444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8600435301406474
- Mean Citation Score: 308.29322799999994
- Max Citation Score: 422.02414000000016
- Similarity Product: 268.7536721002329

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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