PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["429", "002000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microbial fuel cell which is capable of stably generating electricity and in which a pump or the like for fuel supply is not necessary and low oxygen concentration is maintained in the vicinity of a fuel electrode. A microbial fuel cell ( 1 A) includes: a housing ( 2 ) that defines a closed space isolated from an external environment; and an ion-conductive layer ( 5 ) that divides the closed space into a fuel chamber ( 3 ) and an air chamber ( 4 ), the fuel chamber ( 3 ) being configured to have therein a microorganism-containing substance ( 10 ), the air chamber ( 4 ) containing oxygen therein. The housing ( 2 ) has, in at least part thereof, a hole ( 6 ) through which the external environment and the fuel chamber ( 3 ) are in communication with each other. The housing ( 2 ) is provided with an openable/closeable member ( 7 ) configured to be able to open and close the hole ( 6 ).

Claim (Index 19):
A microbial fuel cell system comprising:\n a plurality of the microbial fuel cells recited in  claim 1 ; and a fuel pipe that is configured to carry the microorganism-containing substance and that is connected to the holes of the respective plurality of microbial fuel cells, the plurality of microbial fuel cells being electrically connected in series with each other, electrically connected in parallel with each other, or electrically connected in series and parallel with each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15122425', '13950987', '12145722', '12874295', '15128517']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8641548721138504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4690030530469194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8246396902071573
- Mean Citation Score: 194.915484
- Max Citation Score: 210.58961
- Similarity Product: 174.03563059773444

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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