PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "033000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector for connecting single mode optical fibers includes a ferrule that connects to and holds an optical fiber, and a resin optical element coupled to the ferrule and that includes a lens positioned relative to an end of the optical fiber held in the ferrule, and the lens is provided with an antireflection structure. When the optical connector is oppositely connected to another identical optical connector, the opposing optical elements are disposed such that a diverging light is emitted from the end of the optical fiber, transmitted through the lens, and emitted as a collimated beam of light, and the collimated beam of light is incident on an opposing lens of the opposing, identical optical connector and condensed onto an end of an opposing optical fiber of the opposing, identical optical connector.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical connector for connecting single mode optical fibers, comprising:\n a ferrule that connects to and holds an optical fiber, and a resin optical element coupled to the ferrule and that comprises a lens positioned relative to an end of the optical fiber held in the ferrule, wherein the lens is provided with an antireflection structure, wherein, when the optical connector is oppositely connected to another identical optical connector:\n the opposing optical elements are disposed such that a diverging light is emitted from the end of the optical fiber, transmitted through the lens, and emitted as a collimated beam of light, and \n the collimated beam of light is incident on an opposing lens of the opposing, identical optical connector and condensed onto an end of an opposing optical fiber of the opposing, identical optical connector, and \n wherein Expression (1) is satisfied:\n 0< B\u2212A\u2264 20\u2003\u2003(1), \n where A (PPM/\u00b0 C.) is a coefficient of linear expansion of the ferrule and B (PPM/\u00b0 C.) is a coefficient of linear expansion of the optical element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44068
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15080814', '10344439', '12756600', '11881975', '12652037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8087129561489238
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4544125404959853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.77328291458363
- Mean Citation Score: 154.38073200000005
- Max Citation Score: 161.80235
- Similarity Product: 134.60200558521746

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

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