PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["360", "099210"]

Abstract:
A flexible type electrical feed-through involves a flexible printed circuit (FPC) part constructed as a laminate structure of a base insulating layer, a conductor layer, and a cover insulating layer, where the FPC part is wrapped around a metal part, forming a connector assembly. Such a feed-through may be used at an interface between a hermetically-sealed internal environment, such as in a lighter-than-air gas filled data storage device, and the external environment. The FPC may be shaped so that when wrapped around the metal part, portion(s) of the metal part are exposed on at least one side, which when adhered to a metal enclosure base, provides for a metal-to-metal bonding interface. A board-to-board connector receptacle and/or plug may be electrically connected to the feed-through, enabling smaller electrical connection pads on the feed-through.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of manufacturing an electrical feed-through component, the method comprising:\n forming a laminate flexible cable assembly (FCA) comprising a base insulating layer, a conductor layer over the insulating layer, and a cover insulating layer over the conductor layer, wherein the conductor layer comprises a plurality of electrical connection pads and electrical conductors connecting pairs of the pads; folding the FCA at least in part around a metal plate; and adhering the FCA to the metal plate, forming a connector assembly comprising first pads of the pairs on an upper side of the connector assembly electrically connected via the conductors to second pads of the pairs on the lower side of the connector assembly; wherein the FCA is shaped such that, when folded around the metal plate, one or more portions of the metal plate at each end of the metal plate are not covered by the FCA and are thereby exposed on the upper and the lower sides of the connector assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75581
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14964414', '15282908', '15282783', '14964360', '15672779']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7084752836212392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5047282705645403
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6881005823155694
- Mean Citation Score: 228.91147400000003
- Max Citation Score: 245.51266
- Similarity Product: 162.51319617052437

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

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