PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "324000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an inlet member for a microphone system in a hearing instrument, such as a hearing aid, wherein the inlet member has a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being provided with a first recess for accommodating a microphone comprising a snout for conducting sound energy into the interior of the microphone, wherein the first recess is provided with a sound channel formed for engagement with the snout of the microphone, where the sound channel at the end hereof facing away from the microphone is acoustically coupled to a third recess in the first portion, the third recess being defined by wall portions that provide a seal to corresponding inner surface portions of a hearing instrument, in which the inlet member is mounted.

Claim (Index 16):
A hearing aid having a housing with an inlet system for a first microphone positioned in the hearing aid housing, the hearing aid housing having a first end and an opposite second end, the first microphone being arranged at the first end,\n the inlet system comprising a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being provided with a first recess formed for accommodating the first microphone, a first sound conduit being established from the first microphone to a first opening in the hearing aid housing via the first recess in the first portion, the first sound conduit being dimensioned so as to provide an acoustic low pass filter that filters ultrasound from an incoming sound signal from the environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08824
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15061154', '14212728', '12097240', '14472740', '11586480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6356719394977297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5644819996415418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6285529455121109
- Mean Citation Score: 228.13356800000005
- Max Citation Score: 429.12848
- Similarity Product: 377.9584643136597

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