PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["396", "079000"]

Abstract:
Resistance feedback control of drive signals for plural SMA actuator wires in an SMA actuation arrangement is performed. Target resistance values are set representing a desired position of a movable element with respect to the support structure. Measures of resistance of each SMA actuator wire are detected. Errors are derived from the target resistance values and the detected measures of resistance, the errors being adjusted by offsets. The powers of the drive signals supplied to SMA actuator wires are controlled. in accordance with the adjusted errors. The offsets have values selected to adjust the actual position of the movable element to match the desired positions represented by the target resistance values.

Claim (Index 15):
The method according to  claim 13 , wherein the step of calibrating the offsets is performed during use of the SMA actuation arrangement and the offsets are calibrated when the SMA actuation arrangement is powered up.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14442442', '13581150', '13988034', '14402576', '14647405']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7080325303816836
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178883289032272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.689018110233838
- Mean Citation Score: 251.247508
- Max Citation Score: 271.4795
- Similarity Product: 176.49744568940994

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

Dataset: test