PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16199377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "407200"]

Abstract:
A method for actuating a control device for a transportation vehicle with a control element. A spring-elastic element is disposed underneath the control element and is indirectly or directly moved and/or deformed by a piezo element to give an operator at least a haptic feedback during the operation of the control element. The spring-elastic element is moved toward the control element when the piezo element is actuated and is brought into working contact with the control element. This enables the spring-elastic element to be transferred from a stable initial position into an unstable deformation position when the control element is operated. When the control element is released, the spring-elastic element automatically passes from the deformation position back to the initial position. A haptic feedback is produced by the spring-elastic element in each case in response to a change from the initial position to the deformation position and vice versa.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein the piezo element is only actuated in response to an operator's control tool approaching or touching the control surface in response to detection of an operator's control tool approaching or touching a control surface of the control element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22857
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13423059', '12228260', '15256197', '15486825', '14975170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6061915037857628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5077269057737246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.596345043984559
- Mean Citation Score: 100.745384
- Max Citation Score: 104.01247
- Similarity Product: 58.69154625261008

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