PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896180
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "064000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

Claim (Index 21):
A photovoltaic module comprising:\n a first glass sheet; a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet; a second glass sheet disposed over the photovoltaic device, the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet thereby defining a gap at least a portion of which is spanned by the photovoltaic device; a layer of melted glass powder sealing the gap between the first and second glass sheets at an edge region thereof, the layer of melted glass powder consisting essentially of glass and being free of glass frit, frit material, organic fillers, binders, and solvents; and a plurality of conductive bus ribbons electrically coupled to the photovoltaic device and extending out from the first and second glass sheets through the sealed edge region, wherein (i) at the sealed edge region, each of the conductive bus ribbons is disposed in direct mechanical contact with both the first and second glass sheets, and (ii) the plurality of conductive bus ribbons that are each electrically coupled to the photovoltaic device and extend out through the sealed edge region are the only conductive bus ribbons disposed between the first and second glass sheets that extend out through the sealed edge region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986983', '14457922', '14236824', '16062360', '14694121']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8556734119679996
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5352818794168122
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8236342587128809
- Mean Citation Score: 238.336744
- Max Citation Score: 364.84338
- Similarity Product: 324.66280448145403

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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