PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "667000"]

Abstract:
A lead frame is formed with exposed lead tips. The leads are not attached at their tips to any of a tie bar, a dam bar or an end bar, so when the lead frame is plated, the lead tips are plated. During packaging, after die attach and molding, when the lead frame is cut from the frame assembly, the lead tips are not cut, so the plating remains on the tips. This improves solder joint reliability when the package is mounted on a PCB. The lead frame has connection bars that run parallel to the leads from the tie bar to the end bar. The connection bars provide stability to the leads during wire bonding, but are cut from the lead frame after wire bonding.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the electrodes of the integrated circuit are electrically connected to respective proximal ends of the leads with bond wires.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1875
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14843967', '13170206', '10328235', '13886407', '14677964']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9256616686849646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5056835931527665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8836638611317449
- Mean Citation Score: 228.446554
- Max Citation Score: 240.58527
- Similarity Product: 155.84659894050836

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