PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["439", "629000"]

Abstract:
Electrical connectors are described. More particularly, electrical connectors including a plurality of contacts are described. Both connector plugs and sockets are described. Electrical connectors that are suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board and electrical connectors that include a printed circuit board are described.

Claim (Index 12):
An electrical connector comprising:\n a unitary housing elongated along a horizontal direction perpendicular to a mating direction of the connector, the unitary housing comprising an elongated base, opposing end walls and opposing top and bottom walls extending forwardly from the base along the mating direction and defining first and second L-shaped central slots therebetween separated by a middle wall, each L-shaped central slot comprising a longer horizontal slot portion and a shorter vertical slot portion adjacent the middle wall; a plurality of spaced apart contacts oriented along the mating direction, each contact comprising: a flexible contact member disposed in a corresponding passageway formed in a top wall of the longer horizontal slot portions of the first and second central slots for making contact with a corresponding contact of a mating connector; a retaining member extending from the flexible contact member and secured in the top wall; and a mounting member extending downwardly from the retaining member along a back surface of the base for mounting on a printed circuit board; and a plurality of spaced apart parallel co-planar protrusions extending rearwardly from a bottom of the backside of the elongated base, a portion of the mounting member of each contact being disposed between two neighboring protrusions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15312283', '14906995', '15819006', '15819122', '13097080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.776284937930154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131617676857176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7499726209057104
- Mean Citation Score: 274.48863
- Max Citation Score: 340.63058
- Similarity Product: 282.8771112783777

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

Dataset: test