PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["439", "246000"]

Abstract:
A self-aligning connector has a shroud with a beveled or chamfered surface for engaging an adaptor for establishing a coaxial electric connection between cables or appliances. The shroud is part of a backplane connector for receiving rack mounted appliances, and the shrouds are grouped to correspond to connectors of 4, 8 or 16 coaxial connections. Each shroud mates with a corresponding adaptor for closing the coaxial connection. A pin in the center of each shroud engages a receptacle defined by a socket on the mating adaptor. The chamfered surface has a centering taper that guides the socket into alignment with the pin during insertion, and the chamfer centers the socket at an insertion depth greater than the depth for engaging the pin such that the socket is centered before the point of insertion travel where the receptacle engages the pin.

Claim (Index 13):
A backplane connector device, comprising:\n a backplane adapted for attachment to an equipment rack, the backplane disposing a plurality of shrouds in a predetermined arrangement for connection to communication devices inserted into the equipment rack; each of the shrouds further comprising:\n an annular body and a chamfered edge adapted to receive an adaptor for electrical communication; and \n a pin having a radiused end for slideable insertion, the pin centered in the annular body, \n the chamfered edge disposed to engage the adaptor in a slideable manner for noninterfering engagement of the pin with a socket in the adaptor for electrical communication.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87342
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11734658', '13655718', '12257107', '13950994', '12753258']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7035800321506379
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4638037641212423
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6796024053476983
- Mean Citation Score: 146.201724
- Max Citation Score: 152.73157
- Similarity Product: 116.10934700765372

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