PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["439", "136000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to an electrical connector ( 110 ). More specifically, the invention relates to a twist-lock electrical plug and socket connector for use in, amongst others, towing applications where a towed vehicle and a towing vehicle need to be electrically connected to one another. The electrical connector ( 110 ) includes a plug body ( 120 ), a socket body ( 132 ) to which the plug body ( 120 ) is connectible, a first locking body ( 142 ) comprising first locking formations ( 144 ) and being movably mounted on the plug body ( 120 ), and a second locking formation ( 146 ) on the socket body ( 132 ). Typically, the first or the second locking ( 144, 146 ) formation extends axially from the respective plug and socket bodies ( 120, 132 ) in the direction of respective first connecting ends thereof, and comprise free ends having a radially inwardly extending locking overhangs. Generally, the other of the first or the second locking formation ( 144, 146 ) is a protrusion extending radially from the other of the respective plug or socket body ( 120, 132 ) and at least partially about the circumference thereof, the radial protrusion having a first surface facing the first connecting and a second oppositely facing surface, such that with the plug and socket bodies ( 120, 132 ) connected and with the locking overhang extending beyond the radial protrusion, a twist action imparted between the first locking body ( 142 ) and the connected plug and socket bodies ( 120, 132 ) causes the locking overhang to engage the second surface of the radial protrusion thereby locking the connected plug and socket bodies ( 120, 132 ) to one another.

Claim (Index 14):
An electrical connector according to  claim 13 , wherein the primary and the secondary locking posts together with the respective overhangs thereof are r-shaped or c-shaped claws in a plane parallel to the central axes of the plug and socket bodies, and further wherein the free ends of the secondary locking posts extend axially beyond the first connecting end of the socket body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12469701', '13135121', '14467596', '12317608', '12156244']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7918068867475664
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4841445989120666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7610406579640164
- Mean Citation Score: 228.67183600000004
- Max Citation Score: 235.40198
- Similarity Product: 178.45142966971162

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

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