PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "324000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an inlet member for a microphone system in a hearing instrument, such as a hearing aid, wherein the inlet member has a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being provided with a first recess for accommodating a microphone comprising a snout for conducting sound energy into the interior of the microphone, wherein the first recess is provided with a sound channel formed for engagement with the snout of the microphone, where the sound channel at the end hereof facing away from the microphone is acoustically coupled to a third recess in the first portion, the third recess being defined by wall portions that provide a seal to corresponding inner surface portions of a hearing instrument, in which the inlet member is mounted.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing aid having a microphone, the hearing aid comprising an inlet system configured to let sound from the surroundings enter the microphone, the inlet system comprising:\n an inlet member with a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being provided with a first recess formed for accommodating the microphone comprising a microphone body and a sound inlet or snout for conducting sound energy into the interior of the microphone, wherein the first recess is provided with a first sound channel formed for engagement with the sound inlet or snout of the microphone, where the first sound channel at the longitudinal end hereof facing away from the microphone is acoustically coupled to a first cavity, from which first cavity there extends at least one sound channel that provides acoustic communication between the first cavity and one or more outer surface portion(s) of the hearing aid, and wherein at least one of the following is dimensioned so as to provide an acoustic filter that filters ultrasound from an incoming sound signal from the environment to the microphone: the first recess, the sound inlet, the first sound channel, and the first cavity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08824
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15061154', '14212728', '12097240', '14472740', '11586480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6345693229242324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.566624613214274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6277748519532366
- Mean Citation Score: 228.13356800000005
- Max Citation Score: 429.12848
- Similarity Product: 399.0047238096332

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

Dataset: test