PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15778176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["439", "386000"]

Abstract:
A backplane connector includes a shielded design that has wafers with signal terminals supported as edge-coupled terminal pairs for differential signaling. A ground shield is mounted on each wafer and provides a U-channel that partially shields each terminal pair. The wafers omit a ground terminal between adjacent terminal pairs. An insert can be provided to help connect the ground shield to a U-shield to provide U-shaped shielding structure substantially the entire way from a tail to a contact.

Claim (Index 1):
A backplane connector, comprising:\n a shroud; a plurality of wafers supported by the shroud, each wafer of the plurality of wafers including an insulative frame the supports a first terminal pair and a second terminal pair, the first and second terminal pairs each having a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal that form a differential pair, each of the first and second signal terminals having a contact, a tail and a body extending therebetween, the bodies of the first and second signal terminals being edge-coupled and each wafer including a ground shield that provides a U-channel that extends along the body of the signal terminals, wherein the wafer omits separate ground shields and the U-channels of adjacent terminal pairs are electrically connected with a connection frame; and a plurality of U-shields, each of the U-shields of the plurality of U-shields supported by the shroud and arranged to partially shield the contacts of one of the terminal pairs, the U-shield electrically connected to the U-channel associated with the corresponding terminal pair.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38983
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15373605', '14907451', '14770497', '14916347', '15384561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8061856868871876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232792338514672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7778950415836156
- Mean Citation Score: 327.815784
- Max Citation Score: 372.33313
- Similarity Product: 292.8387110415017

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