PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16199377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "407200"]

Abstract:
A method for actuating a control device for a transportation vehicle with a control element. A spring-elastic element is disposed underneath the control element and is indirectly or directly moved and/or deformed by a piezo element to give an operator at least a haptic feedback during the operation of the control element. The spring-elastic element is moved toward the control element when the piezo element is actuated and is brought into working contact with the control element. This enables the spring-elastic element to be transferred from a stable initial position into an unstable deformation position when the control element is operated. When the control element is released, the spring-elastic element automatically passes from the deformation position back to the initial position. A haptic feedback is produced by the spring-elastic element in each case in response to a change from the initial position to the deformation position and vice versa.

Claim (Index 1):
A control device for carrying out a method for actuating a control device for a transportation vehicle with a control element, wherein:\n a spring-elastic element disposed underneath the control element is indirectly or directly moved and/or deformed by a piezo element to give an operator at least one haptic feedback during the operation of the control element, the spring-elastic element is moved toward the control element when the piezo element is actuated and is brought into working contact with the control element, such that the spring-elastic element is transferred from a stable initial position into an unstable deformation position on operating the control element and the spring-elastic element automatically passes back from the deformation position to the initial position on releasing the control element, a haptic feedback is produced by the spring-elastic element in each case in response to a change from the initial position to the deformation position and vice-versa, the control device comprises a control element enclosed by a housing and which includes a control surface, a spring-elastic element underneath the control element is moved and/or deformed by a piezo element, the piezo element is actuated so the spring-elastic element is moved by the piezo element towards the control element and is brought into working contact with the control element and the spring-elastic element is transferred from a stable initial position into an unstable deformation position when the control element is operated, from which the control element automatically passes back to the initial position when the control element is released, and a haptic feedback is produced by the spring-elastic element in each case in response to a change from the initial position to the deformation position and vice-versa.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22857
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13423059', '12228260', '15256197', '15486825', '14975170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6150496549345136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4741662203703711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6009613114780994
- Mean Citation Score: 100.745384
- Max Citation Score: 104.01247
- Similarity Product: 75.47514364574431

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

Dataset: test