PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950920
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["285", "408000"]

Abstract:
A pipe connector may include a lower motion link and an upper motion link, which may be fastened so as to be pivotable towards each other about a pivot axis. The lower motion link may have a lower seating for one of the pipe sections, and a bearing surface for the connection flange of the first pipe section. The upper motion link may have an upper seating for the other of the pipe sections, and a bearing surface for the connection flange of the second pipe section. The pivot axis may be aligned substantially at right angles to an axial direction of the lower seating and of the upper seating for the pipe sections. In a closed state, the bearing surfaces may be facing each other so that the connection flanges of both pipe sections may be able to be clasped.

Claim (Index 9):
The pipe connector according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the upper seating has an insertion area and a retention area; the retention area of the upper seating is in the shape of a circular segment; and the insertion area of the upper seating has a substantially constant width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14767702', '10064244', '13043148', '14395371', '14405655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7853090067396867
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.3850187274734697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7452799788130651
- Mean Citation Score: 149.035156
- Max Citation Score: 152.2039
- Similarity Product: 95.381201145339

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