PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["114", "312000"]

Abstract:
A submersible remotely operated vehicle with a streamlined shape, which uses an internal support lattice to provide pressure resistance. By using a lattice frame to distribute the water pressure load on the vehicle, the vehicle may be constructed of thin-walled, injection molded plastic, yet may be capable of diving to significant depths. The vehicle may provide pitch control using a single vertical thrust actuator that is horizontally fore or aft of the center of vertical drag; this efficient pitch control improves hydrodynamic efficiency by pointing the vehicle towards the direction of travel to minimize the coefficient of drag. The vehicle may communicate wirelessly with a remote operator via a communications buoy tethered to the vehicle, thereby eliminating cabling constraints on the vehicle's range from the operator. The tether may be connected to the buoy using a waterproof connector that presses three terminals surrounded by a compliant seal onto mating contacts.

Claim (Index 13):
A waterproof connector comprising:\n a waterproof surface contact connector that is detachably coupled to an object configured to come into contact with water, said waterproof surface contact connector comprising three conductive terminals, each comprising an inbound connection to a conductor in a signal cable, each comprising a substantially flat outbound connecting surface at an end opposite said inbound connection, wherein said outbound connecting surfaces for all of said three conductive terminals are substantially coplanar to ensure a wobble free connection; and, a sealing pad comprising a waterproof, insulating, compliant material, said sealing pad comprising a mating surface configured to be placed against a corresponding receiving surface of said object, and comprising an outer surface opposite said mating surface; wherein\n said signal cable couples said waterproof surface contact connector to a submersible remotely operated vehicle, \n said sealing pad surrounds each conductive terminal of said three conductive terminals and separates said three conductive terminals from one another; \n said sealing pad comprises a corresponding hole in said mating surface for each one of said three conductive terminals that exposes said outbound connecting surface of each one of said three conductive terminals; \n said sealing pad is detachably coupled to a recessed area of said waterproof surface contact connector; \n said sealing pad comprises a fastening hole through said outer surface extending to said mating surface; \n said fastening hole is located inside a triangular region comprising said three conductive terminals as vertices; and, \n said waterproof surface contact connector is connected to said object by inserting a fastener through said fastening hole into said receiving hole and tightening said fastener to apply a load pressing said mating surface against said receiving surface, thereby establishing an electrical contact between said three conductive terminals and corresponding contacts on said object, and thereby establishing a water resistant barrier around said electric contact with said sealing pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65306
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621787', '15285255', '15621873', '13096721', '12090547']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7628725917808009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5855538433916425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7451407169418851
- Mean Citation Score: 369.067746
- Max Citation Score: 494.43787
- Similarity Product: 422.3721426866311

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

Dataset: test