PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["320", "113000"]

Abstract:
A charger ( 5 ) includes connecting parts ( 31, 32 ), a main converter ( 83 ), charging paths (Cpa, Cpb), switching elements (SWa, SWb), and a charging-control part ( 200 ). A first battery (Ba) having a first mounting part ( 11 ) and a second battery (Bb) having a second, different mounting part ( 21 ) are respectively mountable on the connecting parts ( 31, 32 ). The charging paths (Cpa, Cpb) respectively connect the main converter ( 83 ) to the connecting parts ( 31, 32 ). The switching elements (SWa, SWb) respectively connect or disconnect the charging paths (Cpa, Cpb) to/from the main converter ( 83 ). The charging-control part ( 200 ) selects one of the batteries (Ba, Bb) as the charging target and sets the charging path, to which the charging target (Ba, Bb) is connected, to the connected state. Then, the charger ( 5 ) charges the charging target to a predetermined voltage using a charging current suited to the charging target.

Claim (Index 11):
A charger comprising:\n a first charging port configured to physically and electrically connect to a first mounting part of a first slide-mountable battery pack; a second charging port configured to physically and electrically connect to a second mounting part of a second slide-mountable battery pack, the second charging port differing from the first charging port such that the first slide-mountable battery pack is not mountable on the second charging port and the second slide-mountable battery pack is not mountable on the first charging port; a single power supply circuit configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply; a first charging path connecting the power supply circuit to the first charging port; a second charging path connecting the power supply circuit to the second charging port; a first switch provided in the first charging path and being configured to selectively connect and disconnect the power supply circuit to/from the first charging port; a second switch provided in the second charging path and being configured to selectively connect and disconnect the power supply circuit to/from the second charging port; and a controller comprising a non-transitory computer readable memory medium that stores instructions and a processor configured to read the instructions stored in the non-transitory computer readable memory medium and to execute the instructions in order to control operation of the charger, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to:\n select one of the first battery pack and the second battery pack as a charging target, \n close the one of the first switch and the second switch in the first charging path or the second charging path that connects the power supply circuit to the first charging port or the second charging port that is connected to the charging target, \n open the other of the first switch and the second switch in the first charging path or the second charging path that connects the power supply circuit to the first charging port or the second charging port that is not connected to the charging target, and \n supply a charging current, which is generated by the single power source circuit and is suited for charging the charging target, to the charging target until the charging target is charged to a predetermined voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.11765
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10754762', '11212583', '10395432', '12844152', '15015263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7346955198975722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739840752298944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7086243754308044
- Mean Citation Score: 190.634886
- Max Citation Score: 195.94876
- Similarity Product: 145.91149344891545

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

Dataset: test