PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15774443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "060000"]

Abstract:
An alignment assembly of a first connector part for aligning a first fiber ferrule of the first connector part with a second fiber ferrule of a second connector part during mating of the first connector part with the second connector part. The alignment assembly includes a ferrule carrier to which the first fiber ferrule is mounted. The ferrule carrier is mounted to the first connector part by a support structure. The support structure is configured to allow a movement of the ferrule carrier relative to the first connector part in at least a lateral direction that is substantially perpendicular to an engagement direction of the first fiber ferrule with the second fiber ferrule. A first guiding structure is mounted to or forms part of the ferrule carrier. The first guiding structure is configured to mechanically interact with a complementary second guiding structure that is provided in the second connector part.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of connecting a first connector part and a second connector part of a wet-mateable subsea connector, the first connector part including a first ferrule carrier to which a first fiber ferrule is mounted and which includes a first guiding structure, and the second connector part including a second ferrule carrier to which a second fiber ferrule is mounted and which includes a second guiding structure, the method comprising:\n mating the first connector part with the second connector part, catching a guide pin forming part of the first or second guiding structure in a guide hole, guide channel or guide recess forming part of the other guiding structure, enabling rotational and/or lateral movement of the first ferrule carrier to allow the first ferrule carrier to align with the second ferrule carrier by interaction of the first guiding structure with the second guiding structure during engagement, and bringing one or more optical fibers of the first fiber ferrule into contact with respective optical fibers of the second fiber ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11546232', '14718730', '14784823', '15919550', '15440330']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7838241976454549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966046972977169
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.755102247610681
- Mean Citation Score: 217.77296
- Max Citation Score: 220.026
- Similarity Product: 156.58727637505532

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

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