PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
It is disclosed a stretchable touchpad ( 10 ) of the capacitive type including a stretchable textile fabric ( 20 ) having a plurality of conductive elements incorporated therein. The conductive elements are resistive strain gauges ( 30, 40 ) which form electrodes to detect a change of capacitance caused by a touch. It is also disclosed a method for operating a stretchable touchpad ( 10 ) comprising the steps of measuring continuously a capacitance analog signal provided by a resistive strain gauge ( 30, 40 ) of the stretchable touchpad ( 10 ); and comparing the measured capacitance signal with a threshold value in order to determine whether or not a touch has taken place, wherein the threshold value is continuously adjusted as a function of the actual measurement of capacitance and as a function of the resistance of said resistive strain gauges ( 30,   40 ) which form the capacitor electrodes of said touchpad ( 10 ).

Claim (Index 4):
The stretchable touchpad ( 10 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein said resistive strain gauges ( 30 ,  40 ) comprise conductive yarns woven or knitted into the fabric ( 20 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11392
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10922336', '13997566', '09724655', '14975465', '14612060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6763827142980819
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4676293311947813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6555073759877519
- Mean Citation Score: 125.817926
- Max Citation Score: 137.31425
- Similarity Product: 98.73073568208515

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

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