PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870878
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["439", "078000"]

Abstract:
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a base and a tongue, an upper and lower rows of contacts mounted in the insulative housing and exposed upon the tongue and a pair of grounding pieces separated from each other and retained in the insulative housing between the two rows of contacts. Each grounding piece includes a securing portion disposed in the mating tongue and defines an abutment exposed upon corresponding side face of the mating tongue. The pair of grounding pieces are far away from corresponding power contacts along the transverse direction thereby resulting that the grounding pieces are wholly offset from the power contacts in the vertical direction so as to avoid the power contacts from electrical sparkle.

Claim (Index 16):
An electrical connector comprising:\n a housing including a base, and a tongue extending form the base in a front-to-back direction and forming opposite first and second surfaces on the tongue in a vertical direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction; a plurality of first contacts disposed in the housing and arranged in a first row along a transverse direction perpendicular to both the vertical direction and the front-to-back direction with first contacting portions exposed upon the first surface, the first contacts including a pair of first grounding contacts respectively located on two opposite lateral sides of the housing, a pair of first power contacts and a pair of first signal contacts between the pair of first grounding contacts in the transverse direction; a plurality of second contacts disposed in the housing and arranged in a second row along the transverse direction with second contacting portions exposed upon the second surface, the second contacts including a pair of second grounding contacts respectively located on the two opposite lateral sides of the housing, a pair of second power contacts and a pair of second signal contacts between said pair of second grounding contacts in said transverse direction; and a pair of latching arm embedded within a middle level and located on two opposite lateral sides of the mating tongue, and respectively aligned with the corresponding first grounding contacts and second grounding contacts in the vertical direction; wherein in the tongue, no metallic means is located between the first contacts and the second contacts in the vertical direction except the pair of grounding pieces are located essentially respectively between the pair of first grounding contacts and the pair of second grounding contacts in the vertical direction; where the latching arms are dimensioned not to overlap with the first and second power contacts wholly in the vertical direction so as to avoid the power contacts from electrical sparkle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15400965', '15346642', '13854978', '13097080', '13656607']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7843081631072834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888549105821105
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.754762837854766
- Mean Citation Score: 276.00901
- Max Citation Score: 297.70038
- Similarity Product: 288.5479634249425

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