PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185600
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["310", "309000"]

Abstract:
A transmitter device incorporating a strain gauge proportional push button is disclosed. The transmitter device includes a printed circuit board including one or more electrical components thereon and a proportional push button having a flexible membrane, a dome switch positioned beneath the flexible membrane and attached to the printed circuit board, the dome switch being proximate to the flexible membrane such that depression of the flexible membrane causes the dome switch to snap down and thereby form a closed circuit in the dome switch, and a strain gauge formed on or applied to the printed circuit board and positioned adjacent the dome switch, the strain gauge generating an electrical output proportional to an amount of deflection of the printed circuit board caused by pressure exerted thereon by depression of the flexible membrane and the dome switch.

Claim (Index 20):
A transmitter device comprising:\n a printed circuit board; and a plurality of push buttons positioned on and adjacent to the printed circuit board, each of the plurality of push buttons comprising:\n a flexible membrane; \n a dome switch positioned beneath the flexible membrane and attached to the printed circuit board, the dome switch being proximate to the flexible membrane such that depression of the flexible membrane causes the dome switch to snap down and thereby form a closed circuit in the dome switch; \n a strain gauge structure positioned adjacent the dome switch and configured to generate an electrical output responsive to a pressure exerted thereon; and \n push button monitoring circuitry in operable communication with the strain gauge structure to process electrical output therefrom; \n wherein the printed circuit board comprises an arrangement of slots formed therein adjacent each strain gauge structure, with each arrangement of slots at least partially surrounding the arrangement of strain gauge resistors of a respective strain gauge structure to isolate the strain gauge structure from a strain gauge structure of any adjacent push buttons.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25397
- Patent Class: 310.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14985579', '10851855', '14913933', '13478623', '10184109']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8542972715262339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5971193721478013
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8285794815883907
- Mean Citation Score: 266.79794000000004
- Max Citation Score: 521.94183
- Similarity Product: 502.9100045676112

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