PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["324", "755090"]

Abstract:
The terminals of a device under test (DUT) are temporarily electrically connected to corresponding contact pads on a load board by a series of electrically conductive pin pairs. The pin pairs are held in place by an interposer membrane with a top facing the device under test, a bottom facing the load board, and a vertically resilient, non-conductive member between the top and bottom contact plates. Each pin pair includes a top and bottom pin, which extend beyond the top and bottom contact plates, respectively, toward the device under test and the load board, respectively. The bottom pins has a lower contact surface which includes an arcuate portion or ridge which increases contact pressure and ablates oxides by the rocking action of ridge when the DUT in inserted.

Claim (Index 13):
A test contactor to be interposed between a contact load board and a device under test (DUT), the DUT including a plurality a plurality of contact pads, each contact pad being laterally arranged, a plurality of upper and lower pin pairs, the pin pairs having distal ends and proximal ends, the proximal end of the upper pin being configured to engage the DUT and the proximal end of the lower pin being configured to engage a load board, the pairs having an outer surface and an overlapping inner mating surface capable of sliding longitudinally along the mating surface,\n the inner mating surfaces being inclined and planar and the outer surfaces being partially arcuate and wherein the pins are tapered toward their distal ends; an engagement feature including a narrowed neck on each of said pins proximate the proximal ends providing an engagement recess; an interposer comprising: a longitudinally compressible resilient non-electrically conductive membrane matrix having a plurality of spaced part apertures defining cross sectional areas and forming passages, each passage extending through said interposer, each passage sized to engage said pin pairs with horizontal elastomeric compression there-against, thereby maintaining said mating surfaces mechanically and electrically engaged during sliding; said membrane matrix including a plurality of spaced apart columns each having one of said apertures with expansion spaces between columns; upper and lower contact plates sandwiching the membrane matrix therebetween; said contacts plates including a plurality of apertures aligned with said matrix apertures with said apertures sized to engage said engagement recess on said pins, so that said pins are prevented from being ejected from said matrix by compressive forces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01429
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15619770', '15082083', '14287557', '13527979', '12721039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6198614675016337
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5832777298779185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6162030937392622
- Mean Citation Score: 456.411466
- Max Citation Score: 487.8899
- Similarity Product: 446.51869521276944

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

Dataset: test