PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "060000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic ferrule and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring and a guide pin retaining plate. The forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion move relative to one another to also move guide pin retaining plate from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.

Claim (Index 13):
A fiber optic connector having field-changeable guide pins, comprising:\n at least one housing defining a passageway; a fiber optic ferrule disposed at least partially within the passageway of the at least one housing of the fiber optic connector, the fiber optic ferrule having guide pin openings extending through the fiber optic ferrule from a front face to a rear face thereof to receive a field-changeable guide pin therein; a pin clamp comprising a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion and a guide pin retaining plate, wherein the forward clamp portion is configured to engage the rear face of the fiber optic ferrule, the forward clamp portion having two guide pin openings therethrough to receive a field-changeable guide pin in each of the two guide pin openings, and wherein the rearward clamp portion is configured to engage a spring for biasing the fiber optic ferrule in the fiber optic connector and has two guide pin cavities to receive at least a portion of one of the field-changeable guide pins, and wherein the guide pin retaining plate is disposed between the forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion, the guide pin retaining plate configured to engage a portion of each of the guide pins; the spring disposed within the at least one housing and rearwardly of the pin clamp; and a spring push engaging the spring and the connector housing to retain the spring and fiber optic ferrule within the connector housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15383356', '15247839', '15810292', '10675352', '10747581']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8581021940186574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6010393728713049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8323959119039221
- Mean Citation Score: 430.76749800000016
- Max Citation Score: 518.98505
- Similarity Product: 515.2494389413446

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