PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["324", "755090"]

Abstract:
The terminals of a device under test (DUT) are temporarily electrically connected to corresponding contact pads on a load board by a series of electrically conductive pin pairs. The pin pairs are held in place by an interposer membrane with a top facing the device under test, a bottom facing the load board, and a vertically resilient, non-conductive member between the top and bottom contact plates. Each pin pair includes a top and bottom pin, which extend beyond the top and bottom contact plates, respectively, toward the device under test and the load board, respectively. The bottom pins has a lower contact surface which includes an arcuate portion or ridge which increases contact pressure and ablates oxides by the rocking action of ridge when the DUT in inserted.

Claim (Index 28):
In an integrated circuit tester for testing a device under test (DUT) having a plurality of terminals and a load board having a plurality of contact pads, a flexible, electrically insulating top contact plate longitudinally adjacent to the terminals on the device under test; a flexible, electrically insulating bottom contact plate longitudinally adjacent to the contact pads on the load board;\n a longitudinally resilient, electrically insulating interposer between the top and bottom contact plates; a plurality of longitudinally compressible, electrically conductive pins in pairs an upper pin including surface to engage said DUT and a lower pin having a surfaces to engage said load board, the pins extending through longitudinal holes in the top contact plate, the interposer and the bottom contact plate, where the pin pairs slide past each other; a method of maintaining the pin pairs in within the interposer comprising the steps of; forming a notch in the body of each pin, the notch being adjacent said surfaces; sizing apertures in said to an bottom contact to resilient expand to receive said pins an contract around said notches, so that said pins are captured from being ejected from said interposer by compressive forces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01429
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15619770', '15082083', '14287557', '13527979', '12721039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6216505243925776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5790115503917127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6173866269924911
- Mean Citation Score: 456.411466
- Max Citation Score: 487.8899
- Similarity Product: 422.7933077173232

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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