PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
A method for making an optical fiber connector includes the following steps: Providing a casting mold having at least one casting cavity, and arranging at least one optical fiber assembly in the at least one casting cavity; Feeding plastic material into the at least one casting cavity; Solidifying the plastic material so as to form a plastic portion which solidifiedly bonds the at least one optical fiber assembly, where an end of the at least one optical fiber assembly emerges from the plastic portion, then removing a lower mold plate of the casting mold; Using a hard grinding disk to grind the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly; and Disposing the casting mold into an atomization facility, and atomizing lens material to the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly, acting with a manner of epicyclic gearing revolving therearound and with their own axes, so as to form a lens on the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly such that the lens is heated and solidified. Thereby, efficacy in producing optical fiber connectors can be improved. Also disclosed is a structure of the optical fiber connector, thus reliability of automated production of optical fiber connectors can be increased.

Claim (Index 9):
The optical fiber connector as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the at least one plastic portion further includes a first plastic layer, a second plastic layer, and a third plastic layer, the first plastic layer and the third plastic layer relate to a mixture of soft fiber and plastic, while the second plastic layer relates to a mixture of hard fiber and plastic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41304
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15163707', '15794130', '15788834', '13772059', '10625901']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8407504741999674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5429457957908272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8109700063590534
- Mean Citation Score: 241.855492
- Max Citation Score: 395.67667
- Similarity Product: 321.2198499171233

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