PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["327", "517000"]

Abstract:
A proximity sensor or switch having a sensing coil, an oscillator connected to the coil, a comparator connected to the oscillator, a reference voltage module connected to the comparator, and an output driver connected to the comparator. The voltage module may incorporate a resistor having an end connected to a high side of a power source, and a digital potentiometer having a first end connected to another end of the resistor and to the comparator, and having a second end connected to a ground side of the power source. The digital potentiometer may have a resistance that is varied with a signal. A variation of the resistance for the digital potentiometer may result in a change of a voltage from the reference voltage module which further changes a switching distance of the proximity switch to a predetermined value.

Claim (Index 11):
The sensor of  claim 9 , wherein:\n the output to indicate a target proximity from the output driver is a proximity sensor output; in a calibration process, if proximity sensor output is different from the predetermined value, then the voltage detector sends an increase or decrease signal to the modulator which provides the DC superimposed modulated signal that goes to the demodulator to be demodulated into an input control signal to the digital potentiometer to increase or decrease the resistance of the resistor network to increase or decrease the reference voltage to remove a difference between the proximity sensor output and the predetermined value. and during the calibration process, the target is placed at a predetermined or required distance from the sensing coil.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50847
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11051574', '11051597', '14398116', '12258006', '12679157']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7697044021620654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4676580411426416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.739499766060123
- Mean Citation Score: 147.765428
- Max Citation Score: 155.20308
- Similarity Product: 114.38966362904549

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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