PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["429", "454000"]

Abstract:
A fuel cell array comprising a plurality of serially connected fuel cell units. A respective fuel cell unit comprises a fuel cell and a tubular cap capped on each end of the fuel cell. The fuel cell unit further comprises an electrically conductive terminal layer forming an outermost laminate of the fuel cell in one end of the fuel cell and extending in the longitudinal direction from the one end of the fuel cell toward the other end thereof to terminate past a tubular skirt of the tubular cap to form a connection area. The terminal layer is directly laminated on the fuel electrode layer in a fuel electrode layer exposition area and directly laminated on the solid electrolyte layer in a solid electrolyte layer exposition area. The fuel cell unit further comprises a grass material forming a sealing layer circumferentially around the fuel cell to fill between the inner surface of the tubular cap and the outer surface of the fuel cell.

Claim (Index 13):
A fuel cell array comprising a plurality of serially connected fuel cell units configured to generate electricity by reaction of a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, a respective fuel cell unit comprising:\n (a) a fuel cell being in a tubular shape extending in a longitudinal direction and having an end opening at each end thereof communicating with each other via an internal flow channel formed through inside of the fuel cell; and (b) a tubular cap capped on each end of the fuel cell, the tubular cap having a tubular skirt wrapping around the fuel cell with a tubular space formed between an inner surface of the tubular skirt and an outer surface of the fuel cell, the tubular cap comprising a flow-through port communicating with the internal flow channel of the fuel cell,\n the fuel cell comprising: \n (a-1) a laminate of electro-chemical reaction layers each being in a tubular shape and collectively forming the fuel cell, the laminate of electro-chemical reaction layers including:\n a fuel electrode layer provided radially innermost of the fuel cell to define the internal flow channel inside of the fuel electrode layer in communication with the end openings of the fuel cell for the fuel gas to flow therethrough in the longitudinal direction of the fuel cell; a solid electrolyte layer laminated on an outer surface of the fuel electrode layer; and an air electrode layer laminated on an outer surface of the solid electrolyte layer, \n wherein the fuel cell comprises (i) an fuel electrode layer exposition area formed near one end of the fuel cell, the fuel electrode layer exposition area having the fuel electrode layer devoid of lamination thereon of the solid electrolyte layer and the air electrode layer, and (ii) a solid electrolyte layer exposition area formed continuously in the longitudinal direction from the fuel electrode layer exposition area toward the other end of the fuel call, the solid electrolyte layer exposition area having the solid electrolyte layer devoid of lamination thereon of the air electrode layer; and \n (a-2) an electrically conductive terminal layer forming an outermost laminate of the fuel cell in said one end of the fuel cell and extending in the longitudinal direction from said one end of the fuel cell toward the other end thereof to terminate past the tubular skirt of the tubular cap to form a connection area, which is not covered by the tubular cap, wherein the terminal layer is directly laminated on the fuel electrode layer in the fuel electrode layer exposition area in electrical contact with the fuel electrode layer and directly laminated on the solid electrolyte layer in the solid electrolyte layer exposition area so that and the terminal layer functions to electrically connect the fuel electrode layer of the fuel cell to an air electrode layer of an adjacent fuel cell in the fuel cell array,\n the fuel cell unit further comprising a grass material forming a sealing layer circumferentially around the fuel cell to fill between the inner surface of the tubular cap and the outer surface of the fuel cell at a location between the exposition area and the connection area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54545
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14348563', '10997787', '10371242', '10581345', '12191023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8690127566199856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4788076753749296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8299922484954799
- Mean Citation Score: 206.290256
- Max Citation Score: 214.72348
- Similarity Product: 162.58713500143048

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

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