PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["439", "884000"]

Abstract:
A spring contact to which a compressive load is to be imposed includes a base, a first elastic arm of a helical shape, a first contact, a second elastic arm of a helical shape, and a second contact. The first elastic arm includes a first fixed end supported on the base and a first end portion at a free end. The first contact is provided at the first end portion and protruding in a direction from which the load acts. The second elastic arm includes a second fixed end supported on the base and a second end portion at a free end. The second contact is provided at the second end portion. The second contact is placed independent of the first contact and protrudes in the direction from which the load acts.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of manufacturing a spring contact, comprising:\n forming a first portion including a first contact and a second portion including a second contact in a material formed of a metal plate; forming a first elastic arm having a first spring constant and including a first end portion by helically bending the first portion; forming a second elastic arm having a second spring constant greater than the first spring constant and including a second end portion by helically bending the second portion; disposing the first end portion and the second end portion such that an end face of the first end portion faces a back face of the second end portion with respect to a direction in which a load is applied; simultaneously deflecting the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm such that the second elastic arm goes beyond an elastic limit with the first elastic arm being within an elastic limit by imposing a compressive load simultaneously on the first end portion and the second end portion; and with the load being removed, causing the end face of the first end portion to contact the back face of the second end portion and causing an initial load to be generated in the first elastic arm, through an amount of spring back of the second elastic arm being smaller than an amount of spring back of the first elastic arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.46341
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15227153', '15645638', '13026191', '14284766', '11311284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.736535081590001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4510098592070117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7079825593517022
- Mean Citation Score: 139.958952
- Max Citation Score: 142.0685
- Similarity Product: 110.16456984314324

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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