PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894426
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
An input device for generating improved haptic feedback. The input device includes a housing and an input component that defines a control surface and is movably supported on the housing with at least two degrees of freedom and associated mechanical natural frequencies. The input device is designed to assign a switching or controlling function to an operator touching or pressing the control surface, where the input device further has mechanical restoring means for restoring the input component into a rest position and an electromechanical actuator, where the actuator is designed to drive the input component along the at least two degrees of freedom and optionally decelerate the input component, counteracting the restoring force caused by the mechanical restoring means, in order to generate haptic feedback characterized in that the mechanical natural frequencies of the at least two degrees of freedom have a maximum deviation of less than 100 Hz.

Claim (Index 11):
An input device for generating improved haptic feedback, comprising:\n a housing; an input component which defines a control surface and is movably supported on the housing with at least two degrees of freedom and associated mechanical natural frequencies being provided, wherein the input device is designed to respectively assign a switching or controlling function to an operator touching the control surface or an operator pressing on the control surface; a mechanical restoring means for restoring the input component into a rest position; and an electromechanical actuator, wherein the actuator is designed to movingly drive the input component in a motor-operated manner along the at least two degrees of freedom and decelerate the input component, counteracting the restoring force caused by the mechanical restoring means, while applying a deceleration effect, in order to generate a haptic feedback for the operator; wherein the mechanical natural frequencies of the at least two degrees of freedom are selected to cause a deceleration effect with regard to the two degrees of freedom; and wherein the input device is configured to be connected to a vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05263
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15593222', '15736225', '10687830', '13052573', '11531125']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5760368825546298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872315354647993
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5671563478456468
- Mean Citation Score: 126.865846
- Max Citation Score: 142.6206
- Similarity Product: 92.38018427503108

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

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