PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for increased sensitivity of a capacitive proximity sensor. The method and apparatus may comprise additional external capacitors coupled in parallel with internal variable capacitors to increase the effective capacitance of a detection circuit allowing for a larger sensing element, and therefore a stronger sensing field, without increasing the applied voltage or the internal capacitance of the proximity sensor. In alternative embodiments, the methods and apparatus may be configured to operate as one of a transmission electrode and a reception electrode to increase the strength of the sensing field.

Claim (Index 9):
The capacitive sensor according to  claim 7 , wherein the detection circuit comprises a differential amplifier comprising a first input terminal and a second input terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15283872', '15284021', '15283970', '15876417', '14038554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6358703193621579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.549443322515117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6272276196774539
- Mean Citation Score: 308.946392
- Max Citation Score: 400.28333
- Similarity Product: 333.8804324638748

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

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