PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["439", "442000"]

Abstract:
Assemblies and methods are provided for establishing an electrical connection and enhancing connectability that utilize an electrical connector having a housing and a socket for receiving an electrical conductor having multiple conductor elements or conductor layers. A conductive fastener extends through the housing into the socket. The fastener can penetrate multiple conductor elements to establish an electrical connection among conductor elements. One or more of the conductor elements can include a cutaway segment that receives a conductive fastener to establish an electrical connection among the connector, fastener, and multiple conductor elements. A conductive shim may be disposed about one or more of the conductor elements and received within the cutaway segment, and the conductive fastener can engage the conductive shim to establish electrical contact among multiple conductor elements through the shim.

Claim (Index 1):
An electrical connector assembly comprising:\n (a) a connector having a housing that comprises (i) a first axis extending between a first end with a first opening and a second end, and (ii) a second axis transverse to the first axis, and (iii) an exterior surface; (b) a socket cavity at least partially collocated with the first opening, wherein the socket cavity (i) extends along the first axis, (ii) defines an interior surface of the housing, and (iii) is sized to receive an electrical conductor having at least two conductor elements; and (c) a passage through the housing, wherein (i) the passage extends along the second axis from the housing exterior surface to the housing interior surface, and (ii) the passage is sized to accommodate a conductive fastener, wherein\n (A) the conductive fastener comprises a first fastener end, a second fastener end, and a fastener first length extending between the first fastener end and the second fastener end, and wherein \n (B) the fastener first length is sized so that when the socket cavity receives the electrical conductor and the conductive fastener is secured within the passage, the first fastener end extends into the socket cavity and into the at least two conductor elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4386
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15133799', '13308679', '11163200', '14570487', '13015073']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7642171175837175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781460814098461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7356100139663303
- Mean Citation Score: 213.985562
- Max Citation Score: 223.00862
- Similarity Product: 169.23488501868368

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