PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["439", "327000"]

Abstract:
A card edge connector with latching that enables a compact connector. The connector includes a latch, centrally located along the connector. The latch may be aligned with an alignment rib of the connector housing, reducing the space required for the latch. In some embodiments, portions of the latch may be bifurcated so that the latch may straddle the rib. In this way, space for a latch in a circuit assembly using the connector may be less than in conventional connector with latches on each end.

Claim (Index 10):
A card edge connector, comprising:\n a housing comprising a slot shaped to receive an edge of a card; an array of contacts disposed along walls of the slot, and a latching member pivotally mounted to the housing between a first portion of the array of contacts and a second portion of the array of contacts such that the latching member pivots between an unlocked position and a locked position, wherein\n the latching member comprising a central portion having a first end and a second end; \n the central portion is pivotally mounted to the housing between the first end and the second end; \n the latching member comprises a first protrusion at the first end that extends into the slot when the latching member is in the locked position, the first protrusion extending from the central portion in a first direction when the latching member is in the locked position; and \n the latching member further comprises a second protrusion at the second end, the second protrusion extending from the central portion in the first direction when the latching member is in the locked position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84314
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15685069', '15867972', '15492070', '11703935', '11491670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7751667458229815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675594591047718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7444060171511605
- Mean Citation Score: 207.19453400000003
- Max Citation Score: 218.18697000000003
- Similarity Product: 187.1770145503092

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