PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950369
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["052", "655100"]

Abstract:
A member-to-member planar connection bracket that includes multiple repeated fuse element configurations that each provide a pre-determined inelastic load-carrying capacity and a reliable inelastic deformation capacity upon development of one or more inelastic hinge locations within the fuse elements. The fuse configurations are interconnected in series such that the total deformation accommodated between first end of the bracket and second end of the bracket is the sum of deformations accommodated by the individual fuse configurations. Multiple brackets are configured in laminar configurations and interconnected to create a connection assembly that provides increased strength or increased deformation capacity as compared to an individual bracket. The connection assembly is used to connect a first structural member and second structural member. The pre-determined maximum inelastic load-carrying capacity of the assembly is less than the elastic load-carrying capacity of the first structural member and the second structural member.

Claim (Index 1):
A member-to-member connection assembly comprising:\n at least two planar connection brackets configured adjacently in a laminar configuration; each of said connection brackets comprised of a first connection member for coupling said connection bracket to a first structural member; each of said connection brackets comprised of a second connection member for coupling said connection bracket to a second structural member; each of said connection brackets comprised of at least two fuse configurations having similar material and geometry in one of a repeated S-shape, a plurality of circular or elliptical elements interconnected by a plurality of interconnection members, a rectangular shape with a stiffener element extending within the interior of the rectangular shape and between opposite sides of the rectangular shape, or a three-dimensional pattern in a spiral configuration; said at least two fuse configurations being disposed between said first connection member and said second connection member, said at least two fuse configurations being operable to deform upon application of a pre-determined loading condition, said at least two fuse configurations arranged in series such that an overall deformation between said first connection member and said second connection member during application of the pre-determined loading condition is the summation of the individual deformations of each fuse configuration during application of the pre-determined loading condition; each of said at least two fuse configurations comprise a geometry containing at least one fuse element being able to form at least one inelastic flexural hinge location to provide for inelastic deformation between said first connection member and said second connection member upon application of the pre-determined loading condition; said overall deformation between said first connection member and said second connection member is the change in linear distance between said first connection member and said second connection member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06944
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14014018', '12600067', '15169474', '13979163', '14436695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.791488476441388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816109465581323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7605007234530624
- Mean Citation Score: 155.08236399999996
- Max Citation Score: 220.59424
- Similarity Product: 171.32593907320023

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

Dataset: test