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 4):
The optical connector according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the clamp section further includes a base member including a centering groove, and a lid member that presses the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber toward the centering groove, an end of the first optical fiber is disposed in the centering groove, and the projecting portion is disposed at a lid member side as viewed from the central region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15126137', '14848548', '15300494', '15981924', '12000896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8302605389195522
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4927282237083742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7965073073984344
- Mean Citation Score: 224.46243600000005
- Max Citation Score: 253.8499
- Similarity Product: 204.5885833234668

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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