PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["429", "508000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a fuel cell includes the steps of: (1) providing a first bipolar plate and a second bipolar plate; (2) applying a first microseal to the first bipolar plate at a first metal bead seal region; (3) applying a first contaminant seal to the first microseal and the first metal bead seal region of the first bipolar plate, the first contaminant seal being configured to protect the first metal bead seal region from a debris piece; (4) assembling a UEA having a subgasket onto the first bipolar plate with a debris piece engaging with the first contaminant seal; and (5) compressing the second bipolar plate onto the first bipolar plate with the subgasket in-between while urging the first contaminant seal and the debris piece away from the first metal bead seal region. Alternatively, the first and second contaminant seals may be applied to the subgasket.

Claim (Index 5):
The method for manufacturing a fuel cell as defined in  claim 2  wherein the first and the second contaminant seals deflect the debris away from the first metal bead seal region and the second metal bead seal region respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78333
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15019152', '15019100', '12821701', '15714267', '12050652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8760614317393546
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5218999672270636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8406452852881254
- Mean Citation Score: 283.964338
- Max Citation Score: 316.3316700000001
- Similarity Product: 220.21265323825128

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

Dataset: test