PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["439", "629000"]

Abstract:
Electrical connectors are described. More particularly, electrical connectors including a plurality of contacts are described. Both connector plugs and sockets are described. Electrical connectors that are suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board and electrical connectors that include a printed circuit board are described.

Claim (Index 8):
An elongated electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board and mating with a mating connector along a mating direction, the connector comprising:\n an elongated base extending along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the mating direction; first and second end walls extending forwardly along the mating direction from opposite longitudinal ends of the base; coplanar first and second tongues extending forwardly along the mating direction from the base and defining a gap therebetween; a plurality of spaced apart contacts oriented along the mating direction, each contact disposed in a corresponding passageway, each contact comprising: a front member extending along the mating direction and disposed in a corresponding passageway formed on a top major surface of the first and second tongues for making contact with a corresponding contact of a mating connector; a rear member parallel to the front member and extending away from the elongated base for mounting on a printed circuit board; and a middle member having a generally inverted U-shape joining the front and rear members and comprising: a first leg portion extending upwardly from the front member; a base portion extending from the first leg portion along the mating direction and away from the elongated base; and a second leg portion extending downwardly from the base portion and joining the base portion to the rear member, the front member being below the rear member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15312283', '14906995', '15819006', '15819122', '13097080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.77610910799668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5099916105000882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7494973582470208
- Mean Citation Score: 274.48863
- Max Citation Score: 340.63058
- Similarity Product: 327.33529622073416

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