PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical fiber connector that optically couples a first optical fiber to a second optical fiber is disclosed. The optical fiber connector includes a first ferrule having a first through hole and a first end face, the first through hole receiving the first optical fiber; a second ferrule having a second through hole and a second end face, the second through hole receiving the second optical fiber, the second end face being apart from the first end face with a gap; a sleeve having a third through hole receiving the the first ferrule and the second ferrule; and an adhesive provided in the gap between the first and the second end faces. The first ferrule and the second ferrule are to be fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve with the adhesive.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of manufacturing an optical fiber connector in which a first optical fiber is optically coupled to a second optical fiber, the method comprising:\n a step of preparing\n a first ferrule having a first peripheral surface, a first through hole and a first end face, the first through hole receiving the first optical fiber, and \n a second ferrule having a second peripheral surface, a second through hole and a second end face, the second through hole receiving the second optical fiber; \n a sleeve having a third peripheral surface and a third through hole; \n a step of applying an adhesive to the first and/or the second end faces of the first and/or the second ferrules, the adhesive being uncured; a step of inserting the first and the second ferrules into the third through hole of the sleeve, the second end face being apart from the first end face with a gap; and a step of curing the adhesive so that the adhesive fixes the first and the second ferrules inside the third through hole of the sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04255
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11783607', '15580464', '10651517', '15463639', '15126137']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8219239043056973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863155069010957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7883630645652372
- Mean Citation Score: 247.10726
- Max Citation Score: 259.2213
- Similarity Product: 225.39407433886527

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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