PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "232000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies that eliminate a connection point in a filter capsule apparatus. A relatively soft tube is thermally or sonically bonded to a relatively hard tube connector that may have a tube receiving bore, a frustoconical tube receiving channel or a straight tube receiving channel. The tube connector is bonded to a filter capsule port. The manufacturing process can be either a one-step process bonding the tube and capsule during formation of the tube connector in one step, or a two-step process that binds the tube to the tube connector in one step and binds the tube connector to a filter capsule port in a second step. Single and dual-walled tubes may be used as well as single and dual-walled tubes having reinforcing material superposed about or embedded in the tube wall(s). A tube support collar is also disclosed. Also disclosed are capsule port/tube connector/tube combinations in which capsule port tips and tube connectors are combined to create tube-receiving gaps or channels to secure a tube to a capsule assembly. Multiple capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies may be connected to form a filter train.

Claim (Index 7):
The filter capsule-tube assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the connector inner wall is conical, tapered in cross-section, with the cross-sectional diameter of a top end of the connector inner wall smaller than the cross-sectional diameter of a bottom end of the connector inner wall, and wherein the connector inner wall is dimensioned to be superposed about, and to secure the flexible tube to, the port outer wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075748', '14138091', '15291109', '14572766', '15231766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8184986046158702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5635799048413491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7930067346384181
- Mean Citation Score: 304.989388
- Max Citation Score: 469.78394
- Similarity Product: 363.68145160859336

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

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