PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["385", "072000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector includes an optical fiber including a glass fiber and a resin coating surrounding the glass fiber; a ferrule having a flange outside the ferrule and holding, inside the ferrule, a portion of the glass fiber exposed from the resin coating at an end of the optical fiber; a plug frame accommodating the ferrule; and an elastic member abutting the flange and biasing the ferrule forward in an optical axis direction of the optical fiber to retain the ferrule inside the plug frame. The flange and the plug frame have a protrusion and a recess that allow the flange and the plug frame to be fitted to each other at the predetermined position. When the ferrule is moved rearward in the optical axis direction, the protrusion and the recess are released from each other to bring the ferrule into a floating state relative to the plug frame.

Claim (Index 4):
The optical connector according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the recess becomes gradually narrower toward the end of the optical connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10891066', '13284144', '13225611', '10651517', '11150580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8456591362533197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5114554801333487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8122387706413225
- Mean Citation Score: 235.58896000000004
- Max Citation Score: 248.70464
- Similarity Product: 146.90135909004212

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