PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["267", "166000"]

Abstract:
A spring latching connector includes a housing having a bore therethrough, a piston slidably received in said bore, a circular groove formed in one of said bore and piston and a circular coil spring disposed in said groove for latching said piston and housing together. The groove is sized and shaped for controlling, in combination with a spring configuration, disconnect and connect forces of the spring latching connection.

Claim (Index 42):
A spring latching connector comprising: a housing having a bore therethrough; a piston slidably received in a direction in said bore; a groove formed in one of said bore and piston; a turn angle coil spring disposed in said groove for latching said piston and housing together, said turn angle coil spring having coils with a major and a minor axis oriented at a turn angle non-orthogonal to said direction, said angle being selected for controlling, in combination with a spring configuration, disconnect and connect forces of said spring latching connector,; and for positioning a point of coil to groove contact in relation to an end point of the coil major axis in order to determine the disconnect and connect forces between the spring and the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13843018', '12614769', '10860199', '13629433', '13721422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7380722495129926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363957335656353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7179045979182569
- Mean Citation Score: 312.008348
- Max Citation Score: 406.572
- Similarity Product: 391.30717125320433

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

Dataset: test