PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052687
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["439", "658000"]

Abstract:
A connector ( 1 ) includes a housing ( 200 ), a terminal metal fitting (T 2 ) inserted into a housing chamber ( 201 ) forwardly in a housing direction, and a spacer ( 400 ) locking the terminal metal fitting. The terminal metal fitting has a plate-like lock piece (T 2 a ) extending in the housing direction. The terminal metal fitting is locked by contacting a rear edge (T 2 aa ) of its lock piece with the spacer. The housing has an opening region between two adjacent terminal housing chambers and a support wall ( 205 ) extending from a peripheral end portion of the opening region backwardly in the housing direction. The support wall supports a tip portion (T 2 b ) of the terminal metal fitting to eliminate movement of the tip portion through the opening region, even when the terminal metal fitting moves backwardly in the housing direction while allowing the rear edge of its lock piece digging into the spacer.

Claim (Index 1):
A connector comprising:\n a housing having a plurality of terminal housing chambers; a plurality of terminal metal fittings each inserted into each of the plurality of the terminal housing chambers forwardly in a housing direction; and a spacer locking the plurality of the terminal metal fittings to restrict movement of the plurality of the terminal metal fittings backwardly in the housing direction, each of the plurality of the terminal metal fittings having a plate-like lock piece extending in the housing direction, and each of the plurality of the terminal metal fittings being locked by contacting a rear edge of the lock piece in the housing direction with the spacer, the housing having an opening region defined between each pair of the terminal housing chambers adjacent to each other and a support wall extending from a peripheral end portion of the opening region backwardly in the housing direction to decrease an opening area of the opening region, and the support wall supporting a tip portion of the terminal metal fitting housed in at least one of the pair of the terminal housing chambers to eliminate movement of the tip portion to come closer to the other of the pair of the terminal housing chambers through the opening region, even upon the terminal metal fitting housed in the at least one of the pair of the terminal housing chambers moving backwardly in the housing direction while allowing the rear edge of its lock piece digging into the spacer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10704065', '11642507', '11513226', '14777533', '11480229']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7464992746943928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4657687925503961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7184262264799932
- Mean Citation Score: 171.02475799999996
- Max Citation Score: 180.18544
- Similarity Product: 136.39546445183754

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