PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185600
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["310", "309000"]

Abstract:
A transmitter device incorporating a strain gauge proportional push button is disclosed. The transmitter device includes a printed circuit board including one or more electrical components thereon and a proportional push button having a flexible membrane, a dome switch positioned beneath the flexible membrane and attached to the printed circuit board, the dome switch being proximate to the flexible membrane such that depression of the flexible membrane causes the dome switch to snap down and thereby form a closed circuit in the dome switch, and a strain gauge formed on or applied to the printed circuit board and positioned adjacent the dome switch, the strain gauge generating an electrical output proportional to an amount of deflection of the printed circuit board caused by pressure exerted thereon by depression of the flexible membrane and the dome switch.

Claim (Index 18):
A transmitter device comprising:\n a printed circuit board including one or more electrical components thereon; and a push button comprising:\n a flexible membrane; \n a dome switch positioned beneath the flexible membrane and attached to the printed circuit board, the dome switch being proximate to the flexible membrane such that depression of the flexible membrane causes the dome switch to snap down and thereby form a closed circuit in the dome switch; and \n a strain gauge positioned adjacent the dome switch, the strain gauge comprising an arrangement of strain gauge resistors that generate an electrical output responsive to a pressure exerted thereon; and \n push button monitoring circuitry in operable communication with the strain gauge resistors, the push button monitoring circuitry configured to:\n determine when a closed circuit is formed in the dome switch responsive to the dome switch being snapped down via the flexible membrane; and \n perform an auto-zeroing operation of an applied force causing the dome switch to snap down, such that the electrical output of the strain gauge is based only on any additional force applied to the push button beyond that applied to snap down the dome switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25397
- Patent Class: 310.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14985579', '10851855', '14913933', '13478623', '10184109']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8543103198977663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.597057446865823
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.828585032594572
- Mean Citation Score: 266.79794000000004
- Max Citation Score: 521.94183
- Similarity Product: 502.6220489509892

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