PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921412
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "163000"]

Abstract:
An input device including a housing and a depressible key plate disposed thereon. The key plate includes a front user-accessible portion, a pivot support portion, and a rear portion. A shaft is disposed in the pivot support portion, where the key plate rotates with respect to the shaft. A force sensor is disposed in the housing and in contact with a bottom surface of the front portion of the key plate, and activates in response to receiving a predetermined force by the bottom surface of the front portion of the key plate. The depressible key plate depresses in response to receiving a predetermined depression force on the top surface. A biasing mechanism is disposed in the housing and in contact with the bottom surface of the rear portion of the key plate to provide an upward force tuned to be substantially equal to the predetermined depression force.

Claim (Index 21):
An input device comprising:\n a chassis; a key plate coupled to the chassis, the key plate including:\n a front portion; \n a rear portion; and \n a center portion disposed between the front portion and the rear portion, \n wherein the key plate is configured to pivot at the center portion in response to the front portion of the key plate receiving a pressing force; \n a biasing mechanism disposed in the chassis and coupled to the rear portion of the key plate, the biasing mechanism configured to provide a restoration force to the key plate that induces the key plate to assist or resist pivoting of the keyplate in response to the front portion of the key plate receiving the pressing force; and an actuator coupled to the chassis, the actuator configured to generate a control signal in response to receiving a threshold activation force from the front portion of the key plate when the front portion of the key plate receives the pressing force.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15145186', '15453744', '13960316', '15722699', '11122971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6251048723160405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5049829068463322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6130926757690697
- Mean Citation Score: 183.006756
- Max Citation Score: 291.31393
- Similarity Product: 235.9177841041869

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