PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16073847
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "059000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector-equipped fiber ( 2 A,  2 B) has optical fibers ( 10 a ), a ferrule ( 11 ), guide holes, and a structure for regulating a space between end faces ( 11 a ) of the ferrules ( 11 ). A relative position between the end faces ( 11 a ) is fixed by guide pins being inserted into the guide holes. Normals with respect to leading end faces of the optical fibers are inclined with respect to optical axes of the optical fibers. MFDs of the optical fibers are gradually expanded toward the leading end faces and are maximized at the leading end faces. The optical axes of the pair of facing optical fibers that are optically coupled are not present on the same optical axis.

Claim (Index 5):
An optical coupling structure comprising\n first and second optical connector-equipped fibers connected to each other, wherein each of the first and second optical connector-equipped fibers has optical fibers and a ferrule, the ferrule includes optical fiber holding holes that hold the optical fibers, a ferrule end face that faces a counterpart optical connector, and guide holes into which guide pins are inserted, leading end faces of the optical fibers are exposed on the ferrule end face, normal directions of the ferrule end face and the leading end faces of the optical fibers are approximately parallel and are inclined with respect to directions of optical axes of the optical fibers, MFDs of the optical fibers are gradually expanded toward the leading end faces and are maximized at the leading end faces, the first and second optical connector-equipped fibers face each other in a vertically inverted state in which the ferrule end faces thereof are approximately parallel to each other, and a spacer is provided as another member between the ferrule end faces thereof, the spacer has an opening allowing passage of optical paths that extend from the leading end faces of the optical fibers, and the first and second optical connector-equipped fibers have relative positions fixed by the guide pins.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1875
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15580464', '10361966', '14980094', '15770265', '12965377']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82378487827706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850784827505929
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7899142387244134
- Mean Citation Score: 247.293718
- Max Citation Score: 250.08356
- Similarity Product: 210.896654871068

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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