PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756450
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "096000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a splice-on connector configuration having connector body defining a forward fiber buckling region and a rearward splice encapsulation region. The splice encapsulation region can be filled with curable adhesive. The splice encapsulation region can also function to anchor a fiber optic cable.

Claim (Index 1):
A fiber optic connector and cable assembly comprising:\n a connector body including front housing interconnected with a rear housing, the front housing including a front end and a rear end, the front end of the front housing forming a plug portion of the connector body, the rear housing extending rearwardly from the rear end of the front housing; a ferrule assembly that mounts within the connector body, the ferrule assembly including a ferrule having a front end and a rear end, the front end of the ferrule being accessible at the front end of the front housing, the ferrule defining a central bore that extends through the ferrule along a central longitudinal axis of the ferrule, the ferrule assembly including a ferrule flange mounted on the ferrule, the ferrule flange defining a rearwardly facing surface, the ferrule assembly being movable within the connector body along the central longitudinal axis of the ferrule between a forward ferrule position and a rearward ferrule position, the ferrule assembly including a ferrule optical fiber secured within the central bore of the ferrule, the ferrule optical fiber including a rear stub portion that projects rearwardly from the rear end of the ferrule; a spring for biasing the ferrule assembly toward the forward ferrule position, the spring applying a forward biasing force to the rearwardly facing surface of the ferrule flange; an adhesive plug mounted within the connector body at a position which divides an interior of the connector body into a forward portion and a rearward portion, the adhesive plug defining a slot through which the rear stub portion of the ferrule optical fiber extends; a fiber optic cable including a cable optical fiber fusion spliced to the rear stub portion of the ferrule optical fiber at a splice location within the rearward portion of the interior of the connector body; a curable adhesive that fills the rearward portion of the interior of the connector body, the curable adhesive encapsulating the splice location and anchoring the cable within the rearward portion of the interior of the connector body; and the adhesive plug being configured to prevent the curable adhesive from entering the forward portion of the interior of the connector body, and the forward portion of the interior of the connector body forming a fiber buckling region for accommodating buckling of the rear stub portion of the ferrule fiber as the ferrule moves from the forward ferrule position toward the rearward ferrule position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5625
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13772059', '14684911', '14907214', '15295475', '15803298']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8510307965774753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5240280141198338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8183305183317111
- Mean Citation Score: 343.2466560000001
- Max Citation Score: 357.17523
- Similarity Product: 304.7511736568141

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