PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["429", "159000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells, where each battery cell has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal. The battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a second alloy of the metal, nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, and a weld physically and electrically coupling the respective terminal to the bus bar. The indentation has a depth between 10% and 90% of the overall thickness, an area of the indentation is between 5% and 20% of an overall area of the body, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.

Claim (Index 5):
The battery module of  claim 1 , wherein disposing the bus bar over the terminal comprises forming a gap between the first surface of the bus bar and the second surface of the terminal, such that melting the portion of the first surface of the bus bar comprises filling the gap with a molten material comprising the second alloy of the metal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72131
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14843570', '14872049', '14231013', '14620113', '15276470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8827510015756975
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5431242049437583
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8487883219125035
- Mean Citation Score: 308.29322799999994
- Max Citation Score: 422.02414000000016
- Similarity Product: 319.2789480079044

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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