PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16375509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a metal touch sensing apparatus in which recognition performance thereof is improved, a plurality of touch parts are successively manipulated to enter into a specific mode, thereby preventing a refrigerator from being malfunctioned, and touch sensitivity of the refrigerator to be touched for the manipulation is visually adjusted, and a home appliance including the touch apparatus and a method for controlling the same.

Claim (Index 1):
A metal touch sensing apparatus comprising:\n a front panel defining an outer appearance of a front surface thereof and on which a touch part is disposed, the front panel being formed of a metal material; a sensor PCB mounted on a position corresponding to the touch part on a rear surface of the front panel and on which a touch sensor for detecting touch of the front panel is mounted; an elastic member contacting a rear surface of the sensor PCB to press and support the sensor PCB in a direction of the touch part, the elastic member generating a base voltage in the touch sensor in a no-touch state; and a sensor control part detecting a voltage increasing from the base voltage when a touch operation occurs to recognize that the touch operation occurs when the increasing voltage is greater than a preset value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48936
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15305261', '14931776', '15969901', '14921681', '14977615']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6654566473770765
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5117336410312393
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6500843467424928
- Mean Citation Score: 261.576908
- Max Citation Score: 310.2154
- Similarity Product: 241.8143119279385

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