PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "232000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies that eliminate a connection point in a filter capsule apparatus. A relatively soft tube is thermally or sonically bonded to a relatively hard tube connector that may have a tube receiving bore, a frustoconical tube receiving channel or a straight tube receiving channel. The tube connector is bonded to a filter capsule port. The manufacturing process can be either a one-step process bonding the tube and capsule during formation of the tube connector in one step, or a two-step process that binds the tube to the tube connector in one step and binds the tube connector to a filter capsule port in a second step. Single and dual-walled tubes may be used as well as single and dual-walled tubes having reinforcing material superposed about or embedded in the tube wall(s). A tube support collar is also disclosed. Also disclosed are capsule port/tube connector/tube combinations in which capsule port tips and tube connectors are combined to create tube-receiving gaps or channels to secure a tube to a capsule assembly. Multiple capsule/tube connector/tube assemblies may be connected to form a filter train.

Claim (Index 10):
The filter capsule-tube assembly of  claim 8 , wherein the connector inner wall is cylindrical in cross-section and dimensioned to be superposed about, and to secure the flexible tube to, the port outer wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075748', '14138091', '15291109', '14572766', '15231766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.818977814295401
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5618289945954594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7932629323254068
- Mean Citation Score: 304.989388
- Max Citation Score: 469.78394
- Similarity Product: 352.69082744390727

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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