PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "117000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope includes a distal end rigid portion including a through hole, an elongated image pickup section, a distal end of which is inserted and fixed in the through hole, a light guide fiber bundle, distal end molded portions of which are inserted and fixed in the through hole, the light guide fiber bundle being formed as one bundle from a proximal end portion to a predetermined branched portion on a distal end side, and formed by being branched into a plurality of bundles on a distal end side with respect to the predetermined branched portion; a plurality of first cover tubes made of e-PTFE, and respectively covering the plurality of bundles from the distal end molded portions to the predetermined branched portion; and one second cover tube of a material other than the e-PTFE, covering the one bundle from the predetermined branched portion to the proximal end portion.

Claim (Index 2):
The endoscope according to  claim 1 , wherein the distal end molded portions of the light guide fiber bundle are each molded such that the outer shape of the distal end is a non-circular shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11654931', '15249922', '15298359', '12369394', '14143439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8318762018041197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4806819048376374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7967567721074715
- Mean Citation Score: 216.045686
- Max Citation Score: 236.09372
- Similarity Product: 203.2781849196601

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

Dataset: test