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 12):
A connector system, comprising:\n a first connector, the first connector including a first shroud that supports a plurality of first wafers, each of the first wafers having a first frame that supports a plurality of first terminal pairs, each of the first terminal pairs including first contact, and a first ground shield that provides first U-channels associated with each of the first terminal pair, the first connector omitting ground terminals between the first terminal pairs and including a secondary shield mounted to each of the ground shield; a plurality of U-shields, each of the U-shield configured to shield the first contacts of one of the first terminal pairs, and a second connector mated to the first connector, the second connector including a second shroud that supports a plurality of second wafers, each of the second wafers having a second frame that supports a plurality of second terminal pairs, each of the second terminal pairs including second contact, and a first ground shield that provides first U-channels associated with each of the first terminal pair, the first connector omitting ground shields between the first terminal pairs, wherein the connector system is configured to provide at least 45 dB insertion loss to crosstalk ratio (ICR) when measured at 20 GHz.

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): 0.8062479892459361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232759589250658
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.777950786213849
- Mean Citation Score: 327.815784
- Max Citation Score: 372.33313
- Similarity Product: 289.10271121271074

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

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