PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238535
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["439", "607050"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector includes a terminal module including a base, a mating tongue, a row of first terminals, a row of second terminals and a shielding plate. Terminals comprise contacting portions, middle portions and leg portions. Each row of terminals comprises three pairs of differential signal terminals, and grounding terminals and power terminals. The shielding plate defines a first row of openings corresponding to the contacting portions, a second row of openings and third row of openings both corresponding to the middle portion. The first row of openings are aligned with the contacting portions of the first and second terminals in a vertical direction and the second row of openings are at least aligned with gaps between every two adjacent terminals while the shielding plate defines no opening corresponding to the middle portions of the three pair of differential signal terminals so as improve shielding performance.

Claim (Index 16):
An electrical connector comprising:\n a terminal module including opposite upper and lower rows of contacts with a metallic shielding plate therebetween in a vertical direction and commonly integrally formed within an insulator which forms a front mating tongue thereof along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to the vertical direction; each row of contacts having twelve contacts spaced from one another from position one to position twelve along a transverse direction perpendicular to both the vertical direction and the front-to-back direction; each of said contacts having a contacting section exposed upon a corresponding surface of the mating tongue wherein in each row the contacting sections of the contacts at position one, four, nine and twelve are wider than those of others; the shielding plate defining a plurality of zones along the front-to-back direction and a plurality of holes spaced from each other in each zone in the transverse direction; wherein the holes in a first zone in a front region of the shielding plate are aligned with the contacting sections of all the twelve contacts in each row while the holes in a second zone in a middle region of the shielding plate are not aligned with the contacting sections of the corresponding contacts in each row but in an offset manner so as to have corresponding ribs formed between every two holes in the second zone aligned with contacting sections of the corresponding contacts in the vertical direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41538
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15626197', '15263345', '15394839', '15632396', '16111244']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7815732753449353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503855382536714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7538014860641131
- Mean Citation Score: 279.11141000000003
- Max Citation Score: 287.92023
- Similarity Product: 192.61205241096133

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

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