PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16089901
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["439", "028000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present invention relate to providing a rotary connector device capable of suppressing the entry of foreign matter into a housing space through a portion corresponding to a locking unit in an opposing portion between a stationary side ring plate and an outer peripheral cylindrical portion. A rotator ( 10 ), which is configured by an annular top plate ( 11 ) and a cylindrically shaped inner peripheral portion ( 12 ), and a stator ( 20 ), which is configured by assembling an annular stator main body ( 21 ) and a cylindrically shaped sub stator ( 22 ), are assembled to be relatively rotatable in both a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction. An SRC ( 1 ) that houses a flat cable (F) being wound inside of a housing space (S) formed therein is provided with a stator locking portion ( 23 ) that enables a frame-shaped locking portion ( 231 ) that extends from the stator main body ( 21 ) to lock with a protruding locking portion ( 232 ) that is formed on the sub stator ( 22 ); and a recess-protrusion fitting portion ( 25 ) that suppresses the entry of foreign matter into the housing space (S). The recess-protrusion fitting portion ( 25 ) is disposed on an opposing portion ( 24 ) that corresponds to the stator locking portion ( 23 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A rotary connector device in which\n a rotating body, configured by an annular rotating side ring plate and a cylindrically shaped inner cylindrical portion formed on an inner peripheral edge of the rotating side ring plate, and a stationary body, configured by assembling an annular stationary side ring plate and a cylindrically shaped outer peripheral cylindrical portion abutting against an outer peripheral edge of the stationary side ring plate in an axial direction, are assembled to be relatively rotatable in both a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction, and a flat cable being wound is housed in a housing space formed inside, the rotary connector device comprising: a locking portion extending from the stationary side ring plate disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the outer peripheral cylindrical portion; a locking unit that enables locking of an engaging portion formed on the outer peripheral cylindrical portion; and a foreign matter intrusion suppression unit that suppresses entry of foreign matter into the housing space, wherein the foreign matter intrusion suppression unit is disposed at a location corresponding to at least the locking unit of an opposing portion between the stationary side ring plate and the outer peripheral cylindrical portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31776
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13951044', '12329240', '16089711', '16028551', '13632899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7235299874479652
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787236349208525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6990493521952539
- Mean Citation Score: 210.64635
- Max Citation Score: 231.21906
- Similarity Product: 195.4655039139176

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