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 13):
A method of generating a haptic impulse comprising:\n providing an energy storage mass, said energy storage mass being coupled to a first end of a pivotal linkage, said pivotal linkage being supported for rotational motion of said energy storage mass about a center of rotation; applying an angular acceleration to said energy storage mass so as to store a quantity of rotational kinetic energy in said energy storage mass; constraining said energy storage mass in a first configuration in relative proximity to said center of rotation; abruptly releasing said energy storage mass, thereby allowing said energy storage mass to move to a second configuration, relatively distal to said center of rotation; and conveying said energy storage mass between said first configuration and said second configuration with said pivotal linkage so as to divert a portion of said quantity of rotational kinetic energy into a linear impulse.

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): 0.6905741496580606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5556049580478666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6770772304970412
- Mean Citation Score: 237.003594
- Max Citation Score: 431.29453
- Similarity Product: 300.81371450389327

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

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