PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["439", "889000"]

Abstract:
An electrical contact pair includes a laminated pair of male forks and female forks that are stamped from sheet metal stock and are molded into a dielectric housing. The male fork tines have sloped outer surfaces sloping toward a centerline of the contact pair in a direction along the male fork tines away from a base of the male fork. The female fork tines have sloped inner surfaces sloping away from the centerline of the contact pair in a direction along the female fork tines away from a base of the female fork. The contacts may include split tails with parts from different laminates that bow outward and resiliently deform to engage walls of a hole into which the tail is inserted. Advantages include low insertion forces, a press-fit board attach from the split tail, multiple electrical paths for low resistance, and a low cost of manufacture.

Claim (Index 9):
An electrical contact pair comprising:\n a male fork contact that includes a male fork base, and a pair of male fork tines emerging from the male fork base; and a female fork contact that includes a female fork base, and a pair of female fork tines emerging from the female fork base; wherein the male fork tines have sloped outer surfaces sloping toward a centerline of the contact pair in a direction along the male fork tines away from the male fork base; wherein the female fork tines have sloped inner surfaces sloping away from the centerline of the contact pair in a direction along the female fork tines away from the female fork base; wherein the female fork tines have respective inward protrusions, with curved inner surfaces, that protrude inward of the sloped inward surfaces, such that the inward protrusions make contact with the sloped outer surfaces of the male fork tines during engagement of the contacts; and wherein the inward protrusions are located at distal ends of the female fork tines, further from the female fork base than the sloped inner surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15048148', '15446294', '11832932', '15862783', '15375269']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7571824741579777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887675917256439
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7303409859147443
- Mean Citation Score: 203.531192
- Max Citation Score: 219.71213
- Similarity Product: 145.50062189503788

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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