PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["439", "589000"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and an outer frame receiving the electrical connector. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion. There exists an annular groove between an outer surface of the shielding shell and an inner wall of the outer frame. The outer frame includes a number of dispensing holes penetrating the inner wall and an outer wall thereof and communicating with the annular groove. An o-ring is injected into the annular groove through the dispensing holes by the insulative materials sealing a gap between the shielding shell and the outer frame. Since the o-ring is formed after assembling the electrical connector to the outer frame, the gap is better sealed.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of making an electrical connector assembly, comprising steps of:\n providing a contact module including an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, said housing including a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion in a front-to-back direction; providing a shielding shell including a front cylindrical portion and a rear hollow portion in the front-to-back direction, said front cylindrical portion having a first annular portion extending forwardly along said front-to-back direction; forwardly inserting the contact module into the shielding shell along said front-to-back direction wherein the tongue portion extends forwardly beyond the first annular portion; providing an outer frame to surround both the front cylindrical portion and the tongue portion, said outer frame forming an annular groove in an interior surface to surround the first annular portion and at least one dispensing hole communicating with the annular groove; and pouring a glue liquid from the dispensing hole into the annular groove to form an o-ring which intimately adheres to both the outer frame and the first annular portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63793
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15599909', '15970845', '16006487', '15611807', '15599880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7909277361021191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007244217389867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7619074046658059
- Mean Citation Score: 305.3617799999999
- Max Citation Score: 310.53168
- Similarity Product: 261.94539758680344

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