PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["318", "441000"]

Abstract:
A multi-voltage battery pack for use with tools of different operating voltages including a housing, a first string of battery cells arranged in electrical series and disposed inside the housing, the first string having a first positive voltage terminal and a first negative voltage terminal, a second string of battery cells arranged in electrical series and disposed inside the housing, the second string having a second positive voltage terminal and a second negative voltage terminal, and a power tool interface shaped and configured to interchangeably (1) mechanically and electrically couple with a first battery pack interface of a first power tool that is configured to operate at a first operating voltage, and (2) mechanically and electrically couple with a second battery pack interface of a second power tool that is configured to operate at a second operating voltage.

Claim (Index 23):
A multi-voltage battery pack comprising:\n a housing having a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, and a top wall that together define a receptacle; an electromechanical interface coupled to the top wall, the interface having a terminal block with a plurality of slots containing a plurality of electrical terminals, a pair of longitudinal rails extending along the terminal block and defining a pair of longitudinal grooves between the rails and the top wall, and a latch, wherein the electromechanical interface is configured to be coupled to a first power tool operating at a first voltage by sliding the pair of longitudinal rails and grooves into corresponding grooves and rails on the first power tool so that electrical terminals on the first power tool are received in the slots to engage the battery pack electrical terminals and the latch engages the first power tool to maintain coupling between the electromechanical interface and the first power tool, and wherein the electromechanical interface is configured to be coupled to a second power tool operating at a second, different voltage by sliding the pair of longitudinal rails and grooves into corresponding grooves and rails on the second power tool so that electrical terminals on the second power tool are received in the slots to engage the battery pack electrical terminals and the latch engages the second power tool to maintain coupling between the electromechanical interface and the second power tool; and a plurality of battery cells disposed in the receptacle, the cells configured (1) to be connectable to each other in parallel to provide power at the first operating voltage to the electrical terminals upon coupling the electromechanical interface to the first power tool, and (2) to be connectable to each other in series to provide power at the first operating voltage to the electrical terminals upon coupling the electromechanical interface to the second power tool, wherein the terminal block, the slots, the battery pack terminals, the longitudinal rails, the longitudinal grooves, and the latch of the electromechanical interface have substantially the same configuration as a terminal block, slots, battery pack terminals, longitudinal rails, longitudinal grooves, and a latch of an electromechanical interface of a single-voltage battery pack that is operable at only the first voltage and can be coupled to the first power tool to provide power at the first voltage to the first power tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86538
- Patent Class: 318.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15970382', '15970329', '15970421', '14992484', '15180748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8176322890770183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6772443625247264
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8035934964217891
- Mean Citation Score: 590.6260980000002
- Max Citation Score: 617.611
- Similarity Product: 581.2254669281244

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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