PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075915
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["074", "563000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a haptic pedal ( 10 ) for a vehicle ( 4 ). The pedal comprises a plurality of piezoelectric actuators ( 22 ) operable for providing haptic feedback to a driver through the footrest ( 18 ) and sensing means ( 26 ) for mapping the area of the footrest in contact with a driver's foot so that haptic feedback is delivered by selective activation of actuators in the mapped area. The invention also comprises a haptic feedback system including the haptic pedal ( 10 ) and a controller ( 6 ) for receiving an input from the sensing means ( 26 ) relating to the area of the footrest in contact with the driver's foot and for delivering an output to selectively activate piezoelectric actuators overlapping the contact area in dependence on a sensed state of the vehicle. The haptic feedback system may be implemented as part of the vehicle's navigation system.

Claim (Index 9):
The pedal of  claim 1  wherein a resilient layer is interposed between the piezoelectric actuators and the sensing means.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26027
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09922917', '10550315', '15210375', '12182960', '15695095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8129090099566989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4638212636468641
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7780002353257155
- Mean Citation Score: 172.92454399999997
- Max Citation Score: 194.87267
- Similarity Product: 121.46807590682864

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