PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007253
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "083000"]

Abstract:
To provide an optical component that is intended to prevent the reduction in the manufacturing yield that may be caused by excessive grinding of the optical component. An optical component includes a plurality of optical fibers arranged in a row and having respective end faces that are inclined with respect to optical axes of the optical fibers, and a holder that holds the plurality of optical fibers. The holder has a first facet that is flush with the end faces of the plurality of optical fibers, a reflecting film that covers the end faces of the plurality of optical fibers excluding at least one end face, and a second facet that forms a transmitting surface for light reflected by one of or both a corresponding one of the covered end faces and the reflecting film.

Claim (Index 6):
The optical component according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the holder includes\n a grooved substrate having a plurality of grooves that are arranged in a row and position the plurality of optical fibers, respectively; and \n a lid member that holds the plurality of optical fibers such that the optical fibers are held between the grooved substrate and the lid member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10448
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15421965', '13999557', '15084216', '10637959', '10139521']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8228053111713898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807999609342828
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7886047761476791
- Mean Citation Score: 177.016174
- Max Citation Score: 201.9797
- Similarity Product: 153.83323281555175

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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