PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["200", "00500A"]

Abstract:
Described herein are thin keyboard and thin keyboard overlay, as well as novel key assembly for uses on keyboards and keyswitches. The key assembly includes a top plate, a movable keycap, a support plate and flexible rods embedded in the sup port plate acting as springs. The underside of the movable keycap has at least one or several tapered protrusions which are located above the flexible rods. A vertical downward force on the movable keycap will enable the protrusion to flex the rods horizontally, thus creating a spring like mechanism that will return the movable keycap to its original position once the vertical force is removed.

Claim (Index 34):
A key assembly comprising:\n a key presented to a user to be depressed by the user; a return mechanism operatively associated with the key assembly; an actuating mechanism operatively associated with the key assembly, the actuating mechanism is designed to press against the return mechanism while imparting a force that flexes or deflects the return mechanism in the horizontal or substantially horizontal direction, as the key is being pressed downward in the vertical direction by the user, upon release of the keystroke by the user, the return mechanism snap back to its original shape while imparting a force to the actuating mechanism propelling the key upward in the vertical direction toward the original resting position; a support plate operatively associated with the key assembly, the support plate aligns the return mechanism with the actuating mechanism in proper position in order to impart most of the downward force during a key press against the return mechanism; and a leveling mechanism operatively associated with the key, the leveling mechanism is designed to keep the key aligns within the support plate and level while the key is depressed by the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 200.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15339243', '14058448', '14507713', '15230724', '13526380']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.807892583072499
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4341541116537735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7705187359306265
- Mean Citation Score: 191.79662
- Max Citation Score: 193.45932
- Similarity Product: 136.87547482038258

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test