PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["362", "217020"]

Abstract:
An LED tube lamp includes a plastic lamp tube with a light transmissive portion, a reinforcing portion, an end cap, a fillet configured on a corner of the lamp tube and an LED assembly. The LED assembly includes an LED light source and an LED strip. The light transmissive portion is fixedly connected to the reinforcing portion. The reinforcing portion includes a plurality of bracing structures at endpoints and a plurality of protruding parts spaced apart between the endpoints. The bracing structures include a combination of vertical ribs and horizontal ribs. The LED strip abuts against the bracing structure to hold the LED assembly in place and the protruding parts provides upright support to the LED assembly. The LED light source is thermally and electrically connected to the LED strip, which is thermally connected to the reinforcing portion. The end cap is attached to an end of the lamp tube.

Claim (Index 85):
An LED tube lamp, comprising:\n a plastic lamp tube, which includes a light transmissive portion, a reinforcing portion and an end cap; and an LED light assembly, which includes an LED light source and an LED light strip, wherein: the light transmissive portion is fixedly connected to the reinforcing portion; the reinforcing portion includes a plurality of bracing structures at endpoints and a plurality of protruding parts spaced apart between the endpoints; the bracing structure includes a combination of vertical ribs and horizontal ribs; the LED light strip abuts against the bracing structure, which holds the LED light assembly in place; the LED light assembly finds upright support by the plurality of protruding parts; the LED light source is thermally and electrically connected to the LED light strip, which is in turn thermally connected to the reinforcing portion; and the end cap is attached to an end of the lamp tube; a cross section of the lamp tube defines a first hypothetical isosceles triangle including a base and a pair of legs; edges of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle curve outwards; a first fillet is configured on an interior corner of the vertex of the cross section of the lamp tube; a second fillet is configured on an exterior corner of the cross section of the lamp tube; the first fillet and the second fillet are spaced apart by a fixed normal distance which equals a thickness of the lamp tube; a cross section of the end cap defines a second hypothetical isosceles triangle; edges of the second hypothetical isosceles triangle curve outwards; a fillet is configured on all vertices of the cross section of the end cap; the first hypothetical isosceles triangle and the second hypothetical isosceles triangle are parallel curves; the second hypothetical isosceles triangle encompasses the first hypothetical isosceles triangle; a bottom edge of the cross section of the reinforcing portion defines a middle portion of the base of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle; a cross section of the light transmissive portion defines a right portion of the base of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle; a left portion of the base of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle; and the pair of legs of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle; the leg of length a is greater than the base of length b; a cross section of the LED light strip defines a hypothetical line; the hypothetical line meets the perpendicular bisector of the first hypothetical isosceles triangle at a right angle; a perpendicular bisector of a hypothetical curve defined by the cross section of the lamp tube is divided by the hypothetical curve defined by the cross section of the lamp tube and the hypothetical line defined by the cross section of the LED light strip into an upper segment of length c and a lower segment of length d; the upper segment of length c is greater than the lower segment of length d; a left vertical rib extends upwards from a first left base at which the light transmissive portion and the reinforcing portion merge; a left horizontal rib merge with the left vertical rib at a point slightly higher than an upper surface of the LED light strip; a right vertical rib extends upwards from a first right base at which the light transmissive portion and the reinforcing portion merge; a right horizontal rib merge with the right vertical rib at a point slightly higher than the upper surface of the LED light strip; a distance between the first left base and the first right base is slightly greater than a width of the LED light strip; the left vertical rib leans slightly inwards towards a left edge of the LED light strip; the right vertical tib leans slightly inwards towards a right edge of the LED light strip; the left horizonal rib angles slightly downwards towards an upper surface of the LED light strip; the right horizontal rib angles slightly downwards towards the upper surface of the LED light strip; a left protruding part erects from a second left base towards a lower surface of the LED light strip; a right protruding part erects from a second right base towards the lower surface of the LED light strip; friction arising from the upper surface of the LED light strip, the lower surface of the LED light strip, the bracing structure and the protruding bar holds the LED light assembly in place unless otherwise overcome by a lateral force; a distance from the first left base to the second left base is identical to a distance from the first right base to the second right base; and the distance from the first left base to the second left base is less than a distance from the second left base to the second right base.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15058004', '15386139', '15889634', '15064621', '15055630']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8669313484243059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5493752735301226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8351757409348876
- Mean Citation Score: 341.24207
- Max Citation Score: 430.24646
- Similarity Product: 391.682338092196

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