PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["439", "079000"]

Abstract:
A card edge connector with an improved manner of creating a preload force on conductive elements held by a housing. The housing may include a member and an opening at a mating end. Each conductive element may have a contact portion curving inwardly relative to the opening and a tip extending from the contact portion towards the mating end. Each contact portion may form an electrical connection with an edge pad of a card to be inserted into the opening. The conductive elements may be configured to have a rest state in order to create a proper force to be exerted on the edge pads. The member may preload the conductive elements by contacting the conductive elements from a location farther from the mating end than the contact portion, which may avoid damage upon insertion of a card into the connector without the need for long tips of the conductive elements. As a result, the connector may operate at high frequencies.

Claim (Index 12):
An electrical assembly comprising:\n a card; and a connector comprising:\n a housing comprising an opening at an end and a member; \n at least one conductive element comprising a mating end, a mounting end opposite the mating end, a contact portion curving inwardly relative to the opening, and an intermediate portion that extends between the mounting end and the contact portion; \n wherein:\n the contact portion of the at least one conductive element of the connector engages with the card, \n the member is positioned farther from the end than the contact portion of the at least one conductive element along a lateral direction, and \n at least a portion of the member is positioned between the card and the intermediate portion of the at least one conductive element along a transverse direction perpendicular to the lateral direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1519
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13070343', '13070324', '13973932', '15683199', '15216254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7662189406236636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4684206141578016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7364391079770775
- Mean Citation Score: 199.991842
- Max Citation Score: 206.17667
- Similarity Product: 163.2697276637453

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

Dataset: test