PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "117000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope includes a distal end rigid portion including a through hole, an elongated image pickup section, a distal end of which is inserted and fixed in the through hole, a light guide fiber bundle, distal end molded portions of which are inserted and fixed in the through hole, the light guide fiber bundle being formed as one bundle from a proximal end portion to a predetermined branched portion on a distal end side, and formed by being branched into a plurality of bundles on a distal end side with respect to the predetermined branched portion; a plurality of first cover tubes made of e-PTFE, and respectively covering the plurality of bundles from the distal end molded portions to the predetermined branched portion; and one second cover tube of a material other than the e-PTFE, covering the one bundle from the predetermined branched portion to the proximal end portion.

Claim (Index 3):
The endoscope according to  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of bundles of the light guide fiber bundle formed on the distal end side with respect to the predetermined branched portion are disposed while being compressed by the image pickup section through the first cover tubes in such a way that minor axes are 90% or less of a diameter of a case where each bundle of the plurality of bundles is formed to have a circular cross section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11654931', '15249922', '15298359', '12369394', '14143439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8303834994305733
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921611139808003
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.796561260885596
- Mean Citation Score: 216.045686
- Max Citation Score: 236.09372
- Similarity Product: 177.57345852643013

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