PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970590
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["029", "857000"]

Abstract:
A holding frame for a plug-type connector is intended to have good heat resistance and a high level of mechanical robustness and, when installed in a metallic plug-type connector housing, enable protective grounding while at the same time being convenient to use, in particular during the replacement of individual modules. To this end, it is proposed to manufacture the holding frame at least partially from spring-elastic sheet metal. For this purpose, the holding frame can have a basic portion and a deformation portion, which are formed from different materials. The basic portion is used for fixing an accommodated module in a plane. The deformation portion can assume an insertion state and a holding state, wherein the insertion state permits insertion of at least one module into the holding frame in a direction transverse to the plane and an accommodated module is fixed in the holding state.

Claim (Index 29):
A holding frame for a plug-type connector adapted to receive a plurality of connector modules, the holding frame comprising:\n a rigid metallic base frame having a rectangular frame structure including opposing longitudinal sidewalls and transverse end walls that define a rectangular frame structure with a module receiving cavity extending completely through the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame from one of opposing ends thereof to the other to provide a space within the confines of the longitudinal sidewalls and transverse end walls that is completely devoid of material of the rigid metallic base frame to insertably receive the plurality of connector modules, and wherein each of the opposing longitudinal sidewalls of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame include a plurality of upwardly extending protrusions that are arranged to define open recesses between adjacent protrusions to receive lugs of the connector modules; and resilient cheek parts made of sheet metal that are distinct from but coupled to the opposing longitudinal sidewalls of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame such that at least a portion of each resilient cheek part extends along a respective external facing surface of one of the opposing longitudinal sidewalls of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame, wherein each cheek part includes an upper end portion having a plurality of resilient tabs extending in a direction parallel to a receiving direction of the connector modules, the resilient tabs each having an upper free end with a respective locking window extending therethrough and each being adapted to flex outwardly away from the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame independent of each other to enable insertion of at least one of the connector modules into the module receiving cavity of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame and to move back toward the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame to a holding state to secure the connector module within the module receiving cavity, and wherein portions of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame adjacent the open recesses defined between the upwardly extending protrusions of the opposing longitudinal sidewalls of the rectangular frame structure of the rigid metallic base frame cooperate with the locking windows formed in the upper free end portions of the resilient cheek parts to collectively form lug receiving devices to secure the connector modules within the module receiving cavity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90361
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15030858', '15271128', '15030860', '14945239', '15502488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8722615259240127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5379747684163997
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8388328501732514
- Mean Citation Score: 271.969406
- Max Citation Score: 388.9771
- Similarity Product: 328.4372582329154

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

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