PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["267", "166000"]

Abstract:
A coil spring for use in a cavity, such as in a groove of a pin, a housing, or both. The cavity can also be part of a seal assembly. The coil spring can have a longitudinal component positioned within the plurality of interconnected coils that runs along the spring coil axis in order to increase rigidity of the coil spring. The longitudinal component applies a load against the coil spring and/or provides restriction against the coil spring taking a shape or size different than that of the coil spring retaining groove.

Claim (Index 42):
A method of using a connector comprising:\n providing a pin having a body with a length and an insertion end with a tapered nose section; providing a housing with a bore, said bore being sized and shaped to receive said pin; inserting the pin into the bore to trap a canted coil spring in a groove and biasing the canted coil spring against the housing and the pin; the canted coil spring comprising:\n a plurality of spring coils interconnected along a length in a ring configuration having two ends that are welded together and having a spring axis; said plurality of spring coils are each canted along a same general direction to form a canted coil spring; \n a longitudinal component comprising two free ends and having two or more loops located within the plurality of spring coils such that the two or more loops run generally along a direction of a spring coil axis; \n wherein the longitudinal component is located within at least half the length of the plurality of spring coils and the two free ends are separable from one another; and wherein an inner surface at an inner diameter of the longitudinal component contacts an inner inside surface of the ring configuration of the canted coil spring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14211598', '14080688', '14855288', '14630361', '15285350']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7570186190777285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5684000226281625
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7381567594327719
- Mean Citation Score: 363.991974
- Max Citation Score: 483.22797
- Similarity Product: 447.6855515348609

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