PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["360", "099210"]

Abstract:
A flexible type electrical feed-through involves a flexible printed circuit (FPC) part constructed as a laminate structure of a base insulating layer, a conductor layer, and a cover insulating layer, where the FPC part is wrapped around a metal part, forming a connector assembly. Such a feed-through may be used at an interface between a hermetically-sealed internal environment, such as in a lighter-than-air gas filled data storage device, and the external environment. The FPC may be shaped so that when wrapped around the metal part, portion(s) of the metal part are exposed on at least one side, which when adhered to a metal enclosure base, provides for a metal-to-metal bonding interface. A board-to-board connector receptacle and/or plug may be electrically connected to the feed-through, enabling smaller electrical connection pads on the feed-through.

Claim (Index 1):
A hermetically-sealed data storage device, comprising:\n an enclosure base; a flexible cable assembly (FCA) coupled with a narrow pin pitch board-to-board (BTB) connector plug; and an electrical feed-through connector bonded to the base, the feed-through connector comprising:\n a flexible circuit assembly comprising a laminate of a base insulating layer, a conductor layer over the insulating layer, and a cover insulating layer over the conductor layer, wherein the conductor layer comprises a plurality of electrical connection pads and electrical conductors connecting pairs of the pads, \n a metal part enveloped at least in part by and adhered to the flexible circuit assembly, forming a connector assembly comprising first pads of the pairs on one side of the connector assembly electrically connected via the conductors to second pads of the pairs on the opposing side of the connector assembly, and \n a narrow pin pitch BTB connector receptacle electrically connected to the first pads; \n wherein the first and second pads of the pairs are smaller than would otherwise be possible without the BTB connector plug and receptacle, thereby reducing the capacitance component of the feed-through connector; wherein the FCA is electrically connected to the feed-through connector via a mating of the BTB connector plug and receptacle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75581
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14964414', '15282908', '15282783', '14964360', '15672779']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7107390631258828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924948550468663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6889146423179812
- Mean Citation Score: 228.91147400000003
- Max Citation Score: 245.51266
- Similarity Product: 193.1002379160762

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