PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "232000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies that eliminate a connection point in a filter capsule apparatus. A relatively soft tube is thermally or sonically bonded to a relatively hard tube connector that may have a tube receiving bore, a frustoconical tube receiving channel or a straight tube receiving channel. The tube connector is bonded to a filter capsule port. The manufacturing process can be either a one-step process bonding the tube and capsule during formation of the tube connector in one step, or a two-step process that binds the tube to the tube connector in one step and binds the tube connector to a filter capsule port in a second step. Single and dual-walled tubes may be used as well as single and dual-walled tubes having reinforcing material superposed about or embedded in the tube wall(s). A tube support collar is also disclosed. Also disclosed are capsule port/tube connector/tube combinations in which capsule port tips and tube connectors are combined to create tube-receiving gaps or channels to secure a tube to a capsule assembly. Multiple capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies may be connected to form a filter train.

Claim (Index 11):
The filter capsule-tube assembly of  claim 8 , wherein the port has a first annual flange extending radially outwardly from the port proximal to the capsule shell and a second annular flange extending radially outwardly from the port distal from the first annular flange, wherein the first and second annular flanges are spaced to form an annular port channel, and wherein a bottom end of the tube connector is formed with an annular tube connector wall extending radially inwardly from the connector inner wall and dimensioned to fit within, and register against, the annular port channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075748', '14138091', '15291109', '14572766', '15231766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8182912524411212
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5643360632499038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7928957335219995
- Mean Citation Score: 304.989388
- Max Citation Score: 469.78394
- Similarity Product: 368.43100493847015

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

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