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 29):
A multi-voltage battery pack for use with tools of different operating voltages, the multi-voltage battery pack comprising:\n 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 a second battery pack interface of a second power tool that is configured to operate at a second operating voltage, wherein the second operating voltage is higher than the first operating voltage, wherein, when the power tool interface is coupled with the first battery pack interface, the first and second positive voltage terminals are electrically connected to each other and the first and second negative voltage terminals are electrically connected to each other such that the first and second strings are electrically connected to each other in a parallel configuration so as to provide the first operating voltage to the first power tool, wherein, when the power tool interface is coupled with the second battery pack interface, the first positive voltage terminal is electrically connected to the second negative voltage terminal such that the first and second strings are electrically connected to each other in a series configuration so as to provide the second operating voltage to the second power tool, wherein the power tool interface comprises a first row of electrical contacts that are shaped and configured to physically and electrically contact corresponding electrical contacts of the second power tool when the power tool interface is mechanically and electrically coupled with the second battery pack interface; wherein the power tool interface comprises a second row of electrical contacts that are shaped and configured to physically and electrically contact corresponding electrical contacts of the second power tool when the power tool interface is mechanically and electrically coupled with the second battery pack interface; the first row is vertically offset from the second row; a plurality of the electrical contacts of the first row of electrical contacts comprise signal terminals; and the electrical terminals of the second row of electrical terminals comprise (1) a first terminal that is electrically connected to the first positive voltage terminal of the first string of battery cells, and (2) a second terminal that is electrically connected to the second negative voltage terminal of the second string of battery cells.

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): 0.8158711018320562
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6840464938913283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8026886410379834
- Mean Citation Score: 590.6260980000002
- Max Citation Score: 617.611
- Similarity Product: 606.5389827327728

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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