PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "407100"]

Abstract:
The present application relates generally to haptic actuators. For example, the application is directed to high performance parallel plate actuators, and more particularly an actuator that can be used to provide haptic feedback in a variety applications such as buttons, panels, track pads, touch panels, wearables, gaming devices and/or touch-sensitive surfaces.

Claim (Index 1):
An actuator for providing haptic feedback to a user, comprising:\n a parallel plate structure comprising: i. a first plate comprising a first electrode; ii. a second plate comprising a second electrode; and iii. one or more piezo structure spacers positioned between and separating the first plate and the second plate, wherein a first contact of the parallel plate structure by the user at a first force provides a haptic feedback from an electrostatic interaction; wherein a second contact by the user at a second force, which is greater than the first force, compresses the piezo structure spacers and transfers additional energy to the first and/or second plates to provide an additional haptic feedback to the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.2766
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15239965', '15398856', '15339981', '15454362', '12306825']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6563328044563072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158651226621471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6422860362768912
- Mean Citation Score: 197.308662
- Max Citation Score: 305.6596
- Similarity Product: 287.51822485537525

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

Dataset: test