PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["324", "207160"]

Abstract:
An electronic position encoder includes a scale comprising a pattern track having a track width dimension along a y-axis direction that is perpendicular to an x-axis measuring axis direction, a detector, and a signal processing configuration. The detector includes a field generating coil configuration fixed on a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB), including a field generating coil portion that surrounds an interior area aligned with the pattern track and includes first and second elongated portions having a trace width along the y-axis direction, which is at least 0.1 times a y-axis width of the interior area. The detector includes conductive receiver loops arranged along the x-axis direction and fixed on the PCB. The first and second elongated portions are fabricated using at least an interior copper layer of the PCB, and the conductive receiver loops are fabricated using at least one copper layer that is closer than the interior copper layer to a front surface of the detector that faces the scale pattern.

Claim (Index 11):
The electronic position encoder of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the signal modulating scale pattern includes a second pattern track arranged parallel to the first pattern track, the first and second pattern tracks each including the signal modulating elements along the x-axis direction; the field generating coil configuration includes a second-track field generating coil portion surrounding a second interior area aligned with the second pattern track and having a nominal second interior area length dimension along the x-axis direction and a nominal second interior area width dimension along the y-axis direction and generating a second-track changing magnetic flux in the second interior area in response to the coil drive signal, wherein the plurality of sensing elements are aligned with the first and second interior areas; the field generating coil configuration includes second-track first and second elongated portions extending along the x-axis direction adjacent to the second interior area, the second-track first and second elongated portions each having a nominal second-track generating trace width dimension along the y-axis direction, which is at least 0.1 times the nominal second area width dimension; the field generating coil configuration includes a second-track end portion spanning a y-axis direction separation between the second-track first and second elongated portions to provide a connection therebetween near an end of the second interior area; and the second-track first and second elongated portions are fabricated using a set of elongated portion copper layers including at least a second interior copper layer of the PCB, and the conductive receiver loops are fabricated using a set of receiver loop copper layers of the PCB that include at least one copper layer that is closer than the second interior copper layer to the front surface of the detector portion that faces the signal modulating scale pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23077
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15850457', '15245560', '15199723', '15702520', '15858218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6077903463739396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5815665561276568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6051679673493113
- Mean Citation Score: 294.073352
- Max Citation Score: 514.63007
- Similarity Product: 428.151859310782

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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