PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["439", "140000"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector assembly having a housing, a terminal alignment plate and an independent secondary lock member. The terminal alignment plate has secondary lock engagement surfaces. The independent secondary lock member has terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces. When the independent secondary lock member is in the open position, the terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces engage the secondary lock engagement surfaces of the terminal alignment plate to retain the terminal alignment plate in the protecting position and prevent the terminal alignment plate from being moved to the fully inserted position. When the independent secondary lock member is in the closed position, the terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces do not engage the secondary lock engagement surfaces of the terminal alignment plate, allowing the terminal alignment plate to be moved to the fully inserted position.

Claim (Index 1):
An electrical connector assembly comprising:\n a housing having a plurality of terminals mounted in the housing with mating portions projecting therefrom; a terminal alignment plate having a plurality of terminal alignment plate apertures for receiving the mating portions of the terminals, the terminal alignment plate having secondary lock engagement surfaces, the terminal alignment plate being movably mounted on the housing between a protecting position in which the terminal alignment plate is positioned proximate distal ends of the terminals and a fully inserted position in which the terminal alignment plate is positioned away from the distal ends of the terminals; an independent secondary lock member, the independent secondary lock member having terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces, the independent secondary lock member being movably mounted on the housing between an open position and a closed position in which the independent secondary lock member engages a primary lock and secures the terminals in the housing; wherein when the independent secondary lock member is in the open position, the terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces engage the secondary lock engagement surfaces of the terminal alignment plate to retain the terminal alignment plate in the protecting position and prevent the terminal alignment plate from being moved to the fully inserted position; wherein when the independent secondary lock member is in the closed position, the terminal alignment plate engagement surfaces do not engage the secondary lock engagement surfaces of the terminal alignment plate, allowing the terminal alignment plate to be moved to the fully inserted position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.20455
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12140885', '15831952', '15830133', '15095323', '12938792']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7867433790895249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948040896206214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7575494501426345
- Mean Citation Score: 271.632444
- Max Citation Score: 293.26697
- Similarity Product: 242.3531967109901

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

Dataset: test