PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["361", "761000"]

Abstract:
An approach for through-hole component soldering for a PCB, and a resulting PCB assembly, that eliminates protruding solder joints, is provided. The approach comprises back-drilling, from a bottom surface of a PCB, one or more through-holes, wherein each back-drilled through-hole is back-drilled to a depth partially through the PCB and at a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the through hole. Solder paste is applied to the PCB. The components are placed on the PCB, inserting each pin into a corresponding through-hole. The PCB is passed through a solder process, whereby, within each through-hole having a component pin inserted therein, the solder paste is wicked into the through-hole, and forms a solder joint with the respective pin. Each solder joint of a back-drilled through-hole is situated within the through-hole in a manner whereby the solder joint does not protrude beyond the bottom surface of the PCB.

Claim (Index 11):
The through-hole PCB of  claim 9 , wherein the back-drilled portion of the back-drilled through-hole is of a depth of approximately 20% of an overall depth of the back-drilled through-hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14583555', '15188299', '10843972', '15420195', '14454839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8507890356789198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5563605306422782
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8213461851752557
- Mean Citation Score: 262.77838599999995
- Max Citation Score: 451.56543
- Similarity Product: 340.83039953450026

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