PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["439", "346000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for securing an electrical connection formed by a mating structure including prongs of a male assembly and receptacles of a female assembly are provided. In certain embodiments, the electrical connection can be secured by frictional engagement between the plug and receptacle housings. This can be accomplished by forcing a wedge into an interface between the housings or expanding a locking element, such as an elastomeric ring, into the interface. Such locking and releasing of the secure connection can be actuated using a locking nut.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for use in securing an electrical connection, said electrical connection being formed by a plug including prongs of a male assembly and a receptacle including sockets of a female assembly, wherein said electrical connection is broken by withdrawal of said prongs from said sockets, said apparatus comprising:\n a plug mating structure of said plug for receipt within a receptacle mating structure of said receptacle; at least one tab structure extending outward from said plug mating structure of said plug for receipt within a recess formed on an internal wall of said receptacle mating structure of said receptacle, wherein said tab is moveable between a lock configuration in which a portion of said tab structure is disposed within said recess and a release configuration in which said portion is withdrawn from said recess; and a release mechanism for moving said tab to said release configuration to facilitate withdrawal of said plug from said receptacle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63793
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250523', '14217278', '15332878', '13228331', '12568444']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917737798889111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5383810029442646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7664345021944464
- Mean Citation Score: 353.85170999999985
- Max Citation Score: 390.69034
- Similarity Product: 308.5421691813147

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

Dataset: test