PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["267", "166000"]

Abstract:
A spring latching connector includes a housing having a bore therethrough, a piston slidably received in said bore, a circular groove formed in one of said bore and piston and a circular coil spring disposed in said groove for latching said piston and housing together. The groove is sized and shaped for controlling, in combination with a spring configuration, disconnect and connect forces of the spring latching connection.

Claim (Index 1):
A spring latching connector comprising:\n a housing having a bore therethrough; a piston with a length defining a piston axis slidably received in said bore; at least one groove formed in or on one of said bore and piston; a turn angle canted coil spring having coils each with a major axis and a minor axis oriented at a turn angle so that the major axis and the minor axis are non-orthogonal to said piston axis in a free standing state prior to locating in said at least one groove, said turn angle being selected for controlling, in combination with a spring configuration, disconnect and connect forces of said spring latching connector and for positioning points of contact of said coils and surfaces of said at least one groove in relation to an end point of the coil major axis of each coil; wherein said turn angle canted coil spring is disposed in said at least one groove and is biased by both the piston and the housing for latching said piston and said housing together; and wherein said piston latches to said housing when said piston moves in a first direction into said bore and separates from said housing when said piston moves in a second direction away from said bore, which is opposite said first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85
- Patent Class: 267.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13843018', '12614769', '10860199', '13629433', '13721422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7388172649030701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5350042159400153
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7184359600067647
- Mean Citation Score: 312.008348
- Max Citation Score: 406.572
- Similarity Product: 370.1899330244065

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