PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
Various implementations include a switch assembly that includes a housing and at least two printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are disposed within the housing and are axially arranged relative to each other. One or more force sensors are disposed on one of the PCBs, and, in some implementations, the one or more force sensors receive force input received by a touch overlay plate. Signals from the force sensors are processed to determine a magnitude, acceleration, and/or location of the force input, and a haptic feedback response is received by the touch overlay plate. The haptic feedback response is based on the force magnitude, acceleration, and/or location of input, according to some implementations. Axially arranging the PCBs reduces the footprint of the switch assembly and allows for the inclusion of more electrical components in the switch assembly, according to some implementations.

Claim (Index 31):
A switch assembly comprising:\n a housing having one or more walls that define a chamber, the one or more walls comprise a first wall that extends orthogonally to an axial direction extending through the chamber and a second wall that extends in the axial direction from the first wall, the second wall having a distal edge that is axially spaced apart from the first wall, a plurality of posts extending away from the distal edge of the second wall in the axial direction and are circumferentially spaced apart from each other, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the chamber of the housing, wherein a first surface of the PCB faces the first wall and a second surface of the PCB faces in an opposite axial direction away from the first wall and the first surface, and wherein at least one force sensor is disposed on the second surface of the PCB; and a flexible membrane having an outer radial edge and defining a plurality of openings spaced radially inwardly of and adjacent the outer radial edge, wherein the posts extend through the openings defined by the flexible membrane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14867672', '14535747', '15242329', '14447621', '14643438']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6423779349687893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795247730932059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.626092618781231
- Mean Citation Score: 106.641488
- Max Citation Score: 110.87063
- Similarity Product: 68.11250815509321

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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