PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16086830
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["385", "137000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector ferrule, an optical connector, and an optical coupling structure according to an embodiment includes an optical connector ferrule that includes a ferrule end face that faces a counterpart connector; and an optical fiber holding hole that is open to the ferrule end face and holds an optical fiber inserted thereinto. A normal direction of the ferrule end face is inclined with respect to a direction of an optical axis of the optical fiber in a section along the optical axis of the optical fiber inserted into and held in the optical fiber holding hole. An inclined angle (θ) of the normal direction with respect to the direction of the optical axis is between 10 0  and 20°.

Claim (Index 4):
An optical coupling structure comprising\n first and second optical connectors connected to each other, wherein each of the first and second optical connectors includes an optical fiber, and an optical connector ferrule that has a ferrule end face and holds the optical fiber, the ferrule end face of the first optical connector and the ferrule end face of the second optical connector face each other, a tip face of the optical fiber is exposed to the ferrule end face in each of the first and second optical connectors, a normal direction of the tip face of the optical fiber and a normal direction of the ferrule end face are both inclined with respect to a direction of an optical axis of the optical fiber in a section along the optical axis of the optical fiber, and an inclined angle of the normal direction of the ferrule end face with respect to the direction of the optical axis and an inclined angle of the normal direction of the tip face of the optical fiber with respect to the direction of the optical axis are both between 10\u00b0 and 20\u00b0, and the optical coupling structure further comprising a spacer configured to regulate an interval between the ferrule end face of the first optical connector and the ferrule end face of the second optical connector, and guide pins configured to fix a relative position between the first optical connector and the second optical connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5098
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15770265', '10897741', '15080814', '12670581', '10340735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.820260733490836
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919061407921157
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7874252742209639
- Mean Citation Score: 240.55333
- Max Citation Score: 283.69446
- Similarity Product: 264.81646598883754

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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