PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "117000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope includes a distal end rigid portion including a through hole, an elongated image pickup section, a distal end of which is inserted and fixed in the through hole, a light guide fiber bundle, distal end molded portions of which are inserted and fixed in the through hole, the light guide fiber bundle being formed as one bundle from a proximal end portion to a predetermined branched portion on a distal end side, and formed by being branched into a plurality of bundles on a distal end side with respect to the predetermined branched portion; a plurality of first cover tubes made of e-PTFE, and respectively covering the plurality of bundles from the distal end molded portions to the predetermined branched portion; and one second cover tube of a material other than the e-PTFE, covering the one bundle from the predetermined branched portion to the proximal end portion.

Claim (Index 1):
An endoscope comprising:\n a distal end rigid portion provided at a distal end of an insertion section, and including a through hole penetrating from inside to outside; an elongated image pickup section provided inside the insertion section, a distal end of the image pickup section being fixed in a state of being inserted in the through hole; a light guide fiber bundle provided inside the insertion section, and including distal end molded portions each having a distal end molded to have an outer shape that is specified in advance in relation to another component inside the insertion section, the distal end molded portions being inserted and fixed in the through hole, the light guide fiber bundle being formed as one bundle from a proximal end portion to a predetermined branched portion on a distal end side, and formed by being branched into a plurality of bundles on a distal end side with respect to the predetermined branched portion; a plurality of first cover tubes made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, and respectively covering the plurality of bundles from the distal end molded portions to the predetermined branched portion; and one second cover tube of a material other than the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, covering the one bundle from the predetermined branched portion to the proximal end portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11654931', '15249922', '15298359', '12369394', '14143439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8136257055697467
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852450787455081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7807876428873228
- Mean Citation Score: 216.045686
- Max Citation Score: 236.09372
- Similarity Product: 187.9147003416109

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