PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984780
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["439", "595000"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector includes a housing and a terminal position assurance (TPA) member. The housing defines cavities that extend from a cable end of the housing parallel to a cavity axis and hold corresponding terminals therein. The housing includes first and second walls defining a TPA slot therebetween that is open to the cavities. The TPA member is mounted to the housing within the TPA slot such that a front side of the TPA member engages the first wall and a rear side of the TPA member engages the second wall. The TPA member is movable relative to the housing between an unlocked position and a locked position along an actuation axis perpendicular to the cavity axis. The TPA member in the locked position extends into the cavities, and the front side of the TPA member engages the terminals to retain the terminals within the housing.

Claim (Index 1):
An electrical connector comprising:\n a housing having a cable end and a mating end, the housing defining cavities that extend from the cable end parallel to a cavity axis, the cavities holding corresponding terminals therein that are connected to one or more cables protruding from the cable end, the housing further including a first wall and a second wall that define a terminal position assurance (TPA) slot therebetween, the TPA slot being open to the cavities; and a TPA member mounted to the housing within the TPA slot, the TPA member having a front side that engages the first wall of the housing and a rear side that engages the second wall of the housing, the TPA member being movable relative to the housing between an unlocked position and a locked position along an actuation axis that is perpendicular to the cavity axis, wherein the TPA member in the locked position extends into the cavities and the front side of the TPA member engages respective back edges of the terminals to retain the terminals within the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46032
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15984824', '10943515', '15244580', '15181823', '15181941']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7911629319688489
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5349902488558592
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.76554566365755
- Mean Citation Score: 325.498942
- Max Citation Score: 396.79752
- Similarity Product: 362.951768249917

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