PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
Various implementations include a switch assembly that includes a housing and at least two printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are disposed within the housing and are axially arranged relative to each other. One or more force sensors are disposed on one of the PCBs, and, in some implementations, the one or more force sensors receive force input received by a touch overlay plate. Signals from the force sensors are processed to determine a magnitude, acceleration, and/or location of the force input, and a haptic feedback response is received by the touch overlay plate. The haptic feedback response is based on the force magnitude, acceleration, and/or location of input, according to some implementations. Axially arranging the PCBs reduces the footprint of the switch assembly and allows for the inclusion of more electrical components in the switch assembly, according to some implementations.

Claim (Index 1):
A switch assembly comprising:\n a housing having one or more walls that define a chamber; a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the chamber, the first PCB having a first planar surface that faces in a first axial direction and a second planar surface that faces in a second axial direction, the second axial direction being opposite from the first axial direction; a second PCB disposed adjacent the first PCB, the second PCB having a first planar surface that faces in the first axial direction toward the second planar surface of the first PCB and a second planar surface that faces in the second axial direction, the second PCB comprising one or more force sensors disposed on the second planar surface; and at least one support surface facing in the second axial direction, the support surface being fixedly coupled to the housing, the support surface being disposed axially between the second planar surface of the first PCB and the first planar surface of the second PCB, wherein:\n at least a portion of the first planar surface of the second PCB engages the support surface, and \n the first PCB and the second PCB are electrically coupled together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14867672', '14535747', '15242329', '14447621', '14643438']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6427090836128856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782218111818567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6262603563697827
- Mean Citation Score: 106.641488
- Max Citation Score: 110.87063
- Similarity Product: 68.82609689166665

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