PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777517
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "098000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector includes a ferrule, a first optical fiber retained in the ferrule, a clamp section including an insertion section where a second optical fiber is inserted, a solid index-matching material disposed on an end face of the first optical fiber on an insertion section side, and a projecting portion on the end face of the first optical fiber and that projects more toward the insertion section side than a central region of the end face. The clamp section centers and fixes the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber.

Claim (Index 12):
An optical fiber connection method comprising:\n abutting an end face of a first optical fiber and an end face of a second optical fiber against each other, wherein the second optical fiber is inserted into a clamp section through an insertion section of the clamp section; and fixing the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber using the clamp section after the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber have been abutted against each other, wherein a solid index-matching material is disposed on an end face of the first optical fiber on an insertion section side, and a projecting portion formed on the end face of the first optical fiber projects more toward the insertion section side than a central region of the end face.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15126137', '14848548', '15300494', '15981924', '12000896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8138550991239224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827734577128472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7807469349828149
- Mean Citation Score: 224.46243600000005
- Max Citation Score: 253.8499
- Similarity Product: 225.79714636994004

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

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