PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["439", "345000"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector includes a contact module integrally enclosed within an insulative outer cover via an over-molding process. The outer cover includes a base and a mating tongue extending from the base. The mating tongue includes a pair of mating surfaces. The contact module includes a body located in the base and the extension extending from the body and located within the mating tongue. The body forms at least one positioning hole through which the core pin of the over-molding mold extends. The positioning hole is dimensioned/configured to have the corresponding core pin snugly restrained in the first horizontal direction while loosely confined in the second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of making an electrical connector, comprising steps of:\n providing a contact module with a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulative housing via an insert-molding process wherein a first positioning hole is formed in the housing in a vertical direction to define a first dimension in a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the vertical direction, and a second dimension in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said first horizontal direction; assembling a pair of metallic reinforcing pieces upon two opposite surfaces of the contact module in said vertical direction; providing a mold for an over-molding process with a core pin extending in the vertical direction; loading the contact module with the associated reinforcing pieces with a core pin extending through the first positioning hole in the vertical direction; wherein by the first positioning hole, the core pin is snugly restrained in the first horizontal direction while loosely retained in the second horizontal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14255093', '15831198', '14551325', '14594474', '13603060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.759495360464593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4809601853472002
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7316418429528537
- Mean Citation Score: 208.644468
- Max Citation Score: 224.07446
- Similarity Product: 165.75174224890233

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