PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
An electronic device is disclosed. In some examples, the device includes one or more force sensors at its perimeter. The force sensors can be included in a gasket further comprising a rubber-like gasket cover and a compressible dielectric such as air or silicone, for example. A plurality of conductive plates can be embedded in the gasket cover with routing traces coupled thereto to sense a capacitance between the conductive plates. The gasket, including the one or more capacitive sensors, can be disposed between a cover glass and a lower housing of the electronic device. The capacitance of the one or more sensors can change in response to an applied force at the cover glass of the device. The change in capacitance can be sensed via the routing traces to measure the magnitude and, in some examples, location of the applied force.

Claim (Index 11):
An electronic device comprising:\n a lower surface; an upper surface; and a force sensing sealing structure comprising:\n means for compressing under an applied force at the upper surface; and \n means for sensing a capacitance of the force sensing sealing structure, the capacitance indicative of the applied force at the upper surface, \n wherein:\n the force sensing sealing structure is situated between the first surface and the second surface, and \n the lower surface or the upper surface comprises a channel and the force sensing sealing structure is situated in the channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272105', '14727601', '15989023', '14766639', '14817786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6479372709216282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943800200805287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6325815458375184
- Mean Citation Score: 189.104566
- Max Citation Score: 263.89474
- Similarity Product: 214.07703445648548

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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