PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["439", "078000"]

Abstract:
A connector with stationary housings, a movable housing, and terminals. The terminals have a movable-side retained portion including a contact portion secured in place by unitary molding in a movable-side retaining portion of the movable housing, a stationary-side retained portion secured in place by unitary molding at a location proximate the connecting portion of the terminals in a stationary-side retaining portion of the stationary housing, and a resiliently displaceable resilient portion coupling the movable-side retained portion to the stationary-side retained portion. The resilient portion has a curved apex portion constituting the upper end of the resilient portion outwardly of the movable-side retained portion in the connector-width direction, and lateral open spaces, which are open in the connector-width direction, are formed in a range including at least the apex portion below the above-mentioned movable-side retaining portion positioned above the apex portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A manufacturing method of an electrical connector comprising a plurality of terminals arranged in an array, each of the plurality of terminals comprising a connecting portion at one end for connecting to a mounting surface of a circuit board, and a contact portion at another end for contacting a counterpart contact member mated therewith; a stationary housing securing said plurality of terminals in place that is fixedly mounted to the circuit board, and a movable housing that is separate from said stationary housing and is movable relative to said stationary housing; wherein the counterpart contact member is mated with the movable housing, wherein the each of the plurality of terminals comprises a movable-side retained portion wherein the contact portion is secured in place by unitary molding with the movable housing in a movable-side retaining portion of said movable housing, a stationary-side retained portion secured in place by the unitary molding with the stationary housing at a location proximate the connecting portion in a stationary-side retaining portion of said stationary housing, and a resiliently displaceable resilient portion coupling the movable-side retained portion to said stationary-side retained portion; the resilient portion comprising a curved apex portion on an upper end of said resilient portion outwardly of the movable-side retained portion in a connector-width direction perpendicular to the terminal array direction within a plane parallel to the mounting surface of the circuit board; and wherein lateral open spaces are formed in the connector-width direction in a range including at least an apex portion below the movable-side retaining portion that is positioned above the curved apex portion in the terminal array direction, the method comprising:\n installing an upper mold from above the electrical connector, side molds laterally in the connector-width direction, and a lower mold from below the electrical connector to form the unitary molding of the movable housing with the movable-side retained portions of the terminals in the upper mold and the side molds and to form the unitary molding of the stationary housings with the stationary-side retained portions of the terminals in the lower mold and the side molds.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15800404', '16056154', '16055640', '16056000', '16056123']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7779003354453037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5104404804643059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7511543499472039
- Mean Citation Score: 279.957374
- Max Citation Score: 340.65646
- Similarity Product: 320.345498861413

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test