PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155608
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "356000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid includes a microphone unit arranged in a hearing aid housing. The microphone unit is oriented in the housing relative to a microphone inlet element to cause a pressure equalization that allows acoustic cancellation of vibrations in the microphone unit.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for designing a hearing aid optimized for vibration cancellation, comprising the steps of:\n i) providing a housing having an outer wall, ii) enclosing a microphone unit in said housing, the outer wall separating the microphone unit from an environment of the hearing aid, and the microphone unit comprising a first chamber having a first volume; a second chamber having a second volume; a first inlet opening being arranged in the first or second chamber; a movable element arranged to separate the first chamber and the second chamber; iii) connecting a microphone inlet element to the first inlet opening and to the outer wall of the housing at a second inlet opening, wherein the microphone inlet element is configured to guide sound from the environment of the hearing aid to the microphone unit; where a microphone unit orientation is defined by a first vector perpendicular to the movable element and extending in a direction from the movable element to the first inlet opening; and a microphone inlet element orientation is defined by a second vector extending in a direction from the first inlet opening to the second inlet opening; iv) arranging the microphone unit and the microphone inlet element in the housing so that the microphone unit and the microphone inlet element, are arranged in the housing so that vibration contributions from the microphone unit to the movable element and vibration contributions from the microphone inlet element are substantially equal but of opposite directions

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15409860', '15904615', '15986060', '15004410', '13644711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6492042228768369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5472906114338294
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6390128617325361
- Mean Citation Score: 242.49025
- Max Citation Score: 386.82593
- Similarity Product: 352.33737345923663

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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