PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "326000"]

Abstract:
A bone conduction hearing aid system includes a hearing aid housing with a hearing aid vibrator. A skin interface has an interface connector offset on an outer interface surface and detachably connected to a housing connector. A skin adhesive connects to the skin of a patient user to transmit the sound vibrations through the skin to underlying skull bone for transmission by bone conduction to a hearing organ of the user. When the skin adhesive is pressed against the skin of the user, the skin is initially engaged during an initial engagement period with an initial adhesive force that promotes removal and relocation of the skin interface, and the skin is fully engaged after the initial engagement period with a full adhesive force greater than the initial adhesive force that promotes a fixed secure connection that resists removal of the skin interface.

Claim (Index 18):
A bone conduction hearing aid system comprising:\n a hearing aid housing having a housing mass and containing:\n i. a hearing aid vibrator configured for generating sound vibrations, and \n ii. a housing connector configured for coupling out the sound vibrations from the hearing aid vibrator; and \n a skin interface having an interface mass and including:\n i. opposing inner and outer interface surfaces, \n ii. an interface connector located on the outer interface surface, the interface connector detachably connected to the housing connector to couple in the sound vibrations, and \n iii. a skin adhesive located on the inner interface surface and configured to adhesively connect to skin of the patient user to transmit the sound vibrations through the skin to underlying skull bone for transmission by bone conduction to a hearing organ of the user; \n wherein the housing mass is at least five times greater than the interface mass, and wherein the skin adhesive is characterized by a surface texture characterized by structural peaks and valleys so that when the skin adhesive is pressed against the skin of the user:\n i. the skin is initially engaged during an initial engagement period with an initial adhesive force that promotes removal and relocation of the skin interface, and \n ii. the skin is fully engaged after the initial engagement period with a full adhesive force greater than the initial adhesive force that promotes a fixed secure connection that resists removal of the skin interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24242
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15018911', '15057174', '14535259', '11306555', '15298904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7287538171297888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6011211304842613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.715990548465236
- Mean Citation Score: 364.869742
- Max Citation Score: 533.7182
- Similarity Product: 485.8662409820439

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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