PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16183778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "087000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an optical connector configured to be able to prevent a load caused by a bending stress of a protective boot from being concentrated on each of locking projections of a spring push on both right and left sides at the head thereof, thereby improving bending performance. At least a pair of locking holes ( 2 b ) and locking projections ( 6 b ) are respectively provided behind a locking hole ( 2 a ) at the front of a housing ( 2 ) and a locking projection ( 6 a ) at the head of a spring push ( 6 ) in such a manner as to distribute a load applied to the locking projection ( 6 a ) at the head of the spring push ( 6 ) with the aid of the rear locking projection ( 6 b ) at the rear thereof when an optical fiber cable ( 3 b ) is bent.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical connector comprising:\n a ferrule to which one end of an optical fiber cable is fixed; a housing which houses the ferrule in its head, extends a portion of the other end side of the optical fiber cable from the rear end thereof, and is provided in both sides at the front thereof with a locking hole; a coupling which is externally fitted slidably to the housing in its longitudinal direction, and is always elastically urged in a forward direction; a spring push which is internally inserted into the rear end of the housing so as to prevent the ferrule from coming off the housing, and is provided at its head with a locking projection to be locked into the locking hole at the front of the housing; a protective boot which extends from the rear end of the housing, with a leading end thereof engaged with the spring push, and has flexibility capable of partly surrounding a portion at the other end side of the optical fiber cable; the locking of the spring push to an elastic locking portion within an adapter being retained by advancing the coupling; and the locking of the spring push to the elastic locking portion within the adapter being unlocked to allow the spring push to be pulled out from the housing by retreating the coupling, wherein at least a pair of locking holes and locking projections are respectively provided behind the locking hole at the front of the housing and the locking projection at the head of the spring push, and wherein a load applied to the locking projection at the head of the spring push is distributed with the aid of the locking projection at the rear thereof when the optical fiber cable is bent.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21918
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16166237', '15722008', '16111316', '12219085', '11660539']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917914068181111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5020778907397664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7628200552102766
- Mean Citation Score: 239.778614
- Max Citation Score: 254.93451
- Similarity Product: 192.4265338581633

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

Dataset: test