PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["439", "442000"]

Abstract:
Assemblies and methods are provided for establishing an electrical connection and enhancing connectability that utilize an electrical connector having a housing and a socket for receiving an electrical conductor having multiple conductor elements or conductor layers. A conductive fastener extends through the housing into the socket. The fastener can penetrate multiple conductor elements to establish an electrical connection among conductor elements. One or more of the conductor elements can include a cutaway segment that receives a conductive fastener to establish an electrical connection among the connector, fastener, and multiple conductor elements. A conductive shim may be disposed about one or more of the conductor elements and received within the cutaway segment, and the conductive fastener can engage the conductive shim to establish electrical contact among multiple conductor elements through the shim.

Claim (Index 7):
The electrical connector assembly of  claim 1 , wherein\n (a) the housing second end includes a second opening; (b) the socket cavity defines a channel extending from the first opening to the second opening, wherein the second opening is sized to receive a second electrical conductor having at least two conductor elements; (c) the passage defines an aperture on the housing exterior surface, wherein the aperture is located a first distance from the housing first end; and wherein (d) the connector housing further comprises a second passage, wherein (i) the second passage extends along a third axis transverse to the first axis from the housing exterior surface to the housing interior surface, (ii) the second passage defines a second aperture on the housing exterior surface that is located a second distance from the first opening, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance, and (iii) the second passage is sized to accommodate a second conductive fastener, wherein\n (A) the second conductive fastener comprises a third fastener end, a fourth fastener end, and a fastener second length extending between the third fastener end and the fourth fastener end, and wherein \n (B) the fastener second length is sized so that when the socket cavity receives the second electrical conductor and the second conductive fastener is secured within the second passage, the third fastener end extends into the socket cavity and into the at least two conductor elements of the second electrical conductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4386
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15133799', '13308679', '11163200', '14570487', '13015073']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7851846358600643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790685658215875
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7545730288562166
- Mean Citation Score: 213.985562
- Max Citation Score: 223.00862
- Similarity Product: 171.88313311724903

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

Dataset: test