PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["439", "607050"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to two opposite faces of the tongue, the upper row of contacts including an upper ground contact and the lower row of contacts including a lower ground contact; and a metal plate disposed between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts, wherein the metal plate has a pair of upper fingers contacting the upper ground contact and a pair of lower fingers contacting the lower ground contact.

Claim (Index 5):
An electrical connector comprising:\n an insulative upper housing part with a plurality of upper contacts embedded therein via an insert-molding process; a lower insulative housing part with a plurality of lower contacts embedded therein via another insert-molding process; a metal plate sandwiched between the upper housing part and the lower housing part in a vertical direction with a plurality of grounding fingers respectively contacting corresponding grounding contacts in the vertical direction; and a metallic shell circumferentially enclosing the upper housing part and the lower housing part; wherein the upper housing part forms an upper aperture extending therethrough in the vertical direction to circumferentially expose a portion of each of corresponding upper contact while being blocked by the shell and the metal plate at two ends thereof in the vertical direction; and the lower housing part forms a lower aperture extending therethrough in the vertical direction to circumferentially expose a portion of each corresponding lower contact while being blocked by the shell and the metal plate at two ends thereof in the vertical direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.525
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15860644', '15851752', '15851586', '12501035', '15263345']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7623433367795122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771951089552985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7338285139970908
- Mean Citation Score: 216.654438
- Max Citation Score: 224.8543
- Similarity Product: 174.08811449745892

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