PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16201131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["439", "304000"]

Abstract:
A connector assembly including a female element having a bore with an open end. A male element is insertable into the bore of the female element along an axis in a first axial direction and removable from the bore of the female element in a second axial direction. One of the female and male elements defines a circumferential surface extending around the axis and a depression in the circumferential surface, the depression having a catch wall facing in one of the first and second axial directions and a release wall facing in the other one of the first and second axial directions. A second one of the male and female elements has a finger mounted thereon, the finger has a catch end biased in a radial direction transverse to the axis, the catch end of the finger being configured to engage the depression and abut the catch wall.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for releasing a male element and a female element from a locked position comprising:\n moving the male element within a bore of the female element in a first axial direction to transition from a locked position, in which a finger on one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element is engaged with a depression on the other one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element and blocks movement of the male element in a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction, to an over advanced position, the movement in the first axial direction dislodges the finger from the depression and positions the finger on a landing area on the other one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element; rotating one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element relative to the non-rotated one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element to transition from the over advanced position to an unlocked position, the rotation moves the finger out of rotational alignment with the depression and aligns the finger with a land bridge on the other one of the group consisting of the male element and the female element, the finger bearing on the landing area during rotation; and moving the male element within the bore of the female element in the second axial direction, the finger bearing on the land bridge as the finger moves past the depression.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15794127', '14474676', '14068703', '12502404', '14971311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7104359968129962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5504601150213961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6944384086338362
- Mean Citation Score: 234.2648
- Max Citation Score: 425.3692
- Similarity Product: 329.14176893076893

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

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