PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
A capacitive touch sensor device comprising set of crossing X and Y electrodes whose crossing points form a two-dimensional array of nodes which define a touch sensitive area made up of rectilinear sub-areas bounded by adjacent pairs of X and Y electrodes. The main electrode branches are referred to as zeroth order branches, since, in each sub-area, there are also higher order branches arranged such that some higher order X branches interdigitate with some higher order Y branches separated by a gap suitable for making a mutual capacitance measurement. The electrode branches are implemented as a fine mesh. The fine mesh comprises criss-crossing lines of conductive material which have gaps in between that are free of conductive material. Some of the criss-crossing lines include breaks formed by absence of individual length portions of the criss-crossing lines that form the mesh.

Claim (Index 1):
A device incorporating a capacitive touch sensor, the device comprising:\n a touch panel having on an upper side a touch surface and on a lower side an internal surface, the touch panel being made of a dielectric material; a set of X electrodes arranged under the touch panel and having a zeroth order branch extending in an x direction; a set of Y electrodes arranged under the touch panel and having a zeroth order branch extending in a y direction different from the x direction, such that the zeroth order branches of the X and Y electrodes cross each other at crossing points to form a two-dimensional array of nodes in which the zeroth order branches of any two adjacent X electrodes and any two adjacent Y electrodes enclose a sub-area; the X and Y electrodes each further comprising higher order branches of order n, each of which is confined to the sub-area into which it buds, where order n is a positive integer and where an nth order branch buds from an (n\u22121)th order branch, so that, away from edges of the node array, each node is associated with four sub-areas, wherein, in each sub-area, at least some of the higher order X and Y branches extend alongside one another separated by a gap suitable for making a mutual capacitance measurement of a touching object impinging on the touch surface, wherein the zeroth and higher order branches represent macrostructure of an overall electrode pattern formed by the X and Y electrodes in a conductive material, and at least some of the branches further comprise internal microstructure through a mesh which includes micro-areas absent of conductive material that are enclosed by conductive material, wherein the mesh comprises criss-crossing lines of conductive material which have gaps in between that are free of conductive material, and wherein at least some of the criss-crossing lines include breaks formed by absence of individual length portions of the criss-crossing lines that form the mesh.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72093
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886862', '15886863', '15886864', '12421713', '14459610']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6746176882517072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5552740889433818
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6626833283208746
- Mean Citation Score: 316.6428459999999
- Max Citation Score: 423.49564
- Similarity Product: 398.12808048561584

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

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