PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173922
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["340", "407100"]

Abstract:
A haptic actuator includes mechanical links defining a first J-trajectory and mechanical links defining a second J-trajectory as well as a motor coupled to the mechanical links so as to synchronously accelerate a first mass over the first J-trajectory and a second mass over the second J-trajectory. During a first time interval, reactive forces of the first mass accelerating substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating and during a second time interval reactive forces of the first mass accelerating do not substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating. This un-balanced condition results in a tap signal being produced.

Claim (Index 1):
A haptic actuator comprising:\n a shaft, said shaft being supported for rotation about a longitudinal axis thereof; a pivotal linkage coupled, at a first proximal end thereof, to said shaft and, at a second distal end thereof, to an energy storage mass, such that a rotational acceleration of said shaft about said longitudinal axis tends to add rotational kinetic energy to said energy storage mass; and a latch mechanism, said latch mechanism having a first operational state in which said latch mechanism retains said pivotal linkage and said energy storage mass in a first configuration, in which first configuration said energy storage mass is disposed in relative proximity to said shaft, said latch mechanism having a second operational state in which said latch mechanism releases said pivotal linkage, whereby said pivotal linkage and said energy storage mass transition to a second configuration, in which second configuration said energy storage mass is disposed relatively distal to said shaft, said pivotal linkage being adapted and configured to control a motion of said energy storage mass during said transition so as to convert a portion of said rotational kinetic energy to a linear impulse, said linear impulse being oriented generally parallel to said longitudinal axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15242508', '13422453', '09968725', '10782953', '14903452']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6906120809546235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5555234639834844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6771032192575095
- Mean Citation Score: 237.003594
- Max Citation Score: 431.29453
- Similarity Product: 300.042525493424

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

Dataset: test