PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926903
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["439", "175000"]

Abstract:
A connector assembly having a housing and pin and a spring contact located therebetween to take up a set gap between the pin and the housing. The spring contact can be a canted coil spring and the spring contact can be made to have a large range of deflection to take up the gap with a large range of variation, such as when the pin diameter varies for a given groove bore diameter or when the groove bore diameter varies for a given pin diameter.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of making a connector assembly for use with a range of pin sizes comprising:\n providing a housing with a bore and a housing groove having a groove bore diameter X; providing a canted coil spring comprising a plurality of interconnected coils each with a coil base having a coil width and a coil height disposed in said bore of said housing, wherein said coil base is in contact with said housing groove, and wherein said coil width is less than said coil height; inserting a pin having a pin diameter into the bore of said housing and deflecting said canted coil spring along the respective coil height of each of the plurality of interconnected coils; and wherein said canted coil spring is deflected by said pin and said housing and wherein said the pin diameter is about 0.4X to about 0.89X.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14211598', '14855288', '15285350', '14080688', '14165294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560909192115515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046943067027976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7309512579606761
- Mean Citation Score: 290.427208
- Max Citation Score: 300.12912
- Similarity Product: 248.48507150075912

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