PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16225296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["320", "112000"]

Abstract:
A battery assembly controller controls terminal voltages of a plurality of series-connected secondary batteries to be equal. The controller includes a discharge circuit selectively reducing the terminal voltages of the secondary batteries; and a monitoring circuit directly connected to positive and negative electrodes of the secondary batteries to monitor the terminal voltages of the secondary batteries.

Claim (Index 1):
A battery assembly controller controlling a plurality of series-connected secondary batteries, the controller comprising:\n a discharge circuit reducing terminal voltages of the plurality of secondary batteries; and a monitoring circuit configured to monitor the terminal voltages of the secondary batteries, wherein the discharge circuit includes a plurality of switches, each being connected to an associated one of the secondary batteries, the battery assembly controller further includes:\n a plurality of cell balancing terminals connecting the plurality of secondary batteries and the plurality of switches together; and \n a plurality of voltage detection terminals connecting the plurality of secondary batteries and the monitoring circuit together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78788
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15049811', '14379889', '12667979', '14482156', '14261426']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.719454331787474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5027316942245791
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6977820680311846
- Mean Citation Score: 191.44767400000003
- Max Citation Score: 312.3748
- Similarity Product: 282.8833641019821

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

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