PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["324", "754070"]

Abstract:
Vertical probe heads having a space transformer laterally tiled into several sections are provided. This change relative to conventional approaches improves manufacturing yield. These probe heads can include metal ground planes, and in embodiments where the ground planes are provided as separate metal plates parallel to the guide plates, the metal plates can also be laterally tiled into several sections. Such tiling of metal plates improves manufacturing yield and alleviates thermal mismatch issues. Probes are not mechanically connected to the space transformer, which facilitates replacement of individual probes of an array.

Claim (Index 1):
A vertical probe head comprising:\n two or more vertically separated guide plates; two or more vertical probes, wherein each of the two or more vertical probes is disposed in a corresponding set of holes in the two or more vertically separated guide plates; a membrane space transformer configured to provide electrical contact between the two or more vertical probes and a test instrument; wherein each of the two or more vertical probes has a base configured to electrically contact the membrane space transformer and a tip configured to electrically contact a device under test; wherein the membrane space transformer is configured as two or more space transformer sections laterally tiled with respect to each other to cover a lateral area of the vertical probe array; wherein electrical and mechanical contact between bases of the vertical probes and the membrane space transformer is a non-permanent pressure contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62295
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12077627', '15184374', '14515537', '15868737', '15718430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5495360110608997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4353868040912924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.538121090363939
- Mean Citation Score: 120.8689392
- Max Citation Score: 128.60228
- Similarity Product: 109.35695166788578

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