PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["331", "154000"]

Abstract:
A continuous or distributed resonator geometry is defined such that the fabrication process used to form a spring mechanism also forms an effective mass of the resonator structure. Proportional design of the spring mechanism and/or mass element geometries in relation to the fabrication process allows for compensation of process-tolerance-induced fabrication variances. As a result, a resonator having increased frequency accuracy is achieved.

Claim (Index 27):
A resonator comprising:\n a substrate; an anchor; a mass element having an effective mass m; and a spring beam; wherein: the spring beam is movably suspended over the substrate; a first end of the spring beam is attached to the anchor, which anchors the spring beam, at the first end, to the substrate; a second end of the spring beam is attached to the mass element; the spring beam has an actual width that is defined by a process used to form the spring beam from a constituent material and to form the mass element; an effective mechanical stiffness k y  that defines a limitation on the movability of the spring beam is defined as E * h * W real 3 4 * l 3 ; E is Young's Modulus; h is a height of the beam; W real  is the actual width of the spring beam; l is a length of the spring beam; the resonator has a resonance frequency that is defined as 1 2 \ue89e \u03c0 * k y m , k y m being a ratio of the effective mechanical stiffness to the effective mass; and\n the mass element comprises a plurality of beams having a geometry defined such that modification of the actual width by the process results in a modification in widths of the plurality of beams of the mass element to an extent that little change to the ratio occurs by the modifications, by virtue of a proportion of a change to the effective mass that occurs with each change to the actual width of the spring beam by virtue of the geometry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40426
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14728805', '14728930', '10414793', '13731739', '13446398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.758922442774148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527406782969699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7357708767937031
- Mean Citation Score: 240.45382200000003
- Max Citation Score: 353.5971
- Similarity Product: 265.48018056773543

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

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