PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "328000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid ( 1 ) comprises a flexible ear tip ( 9 ) for an ear piece ( 8 ) adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user. The ear piece comprises a shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material, featuring a mid zone that is adapted for being softer to compression by the contact with ear canal wall than is the case with the end zones. The invention further provides an ear piece, an ear plug, and a component for a communications device.

Claim (Index 1):
An ear piece adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user, and to provide acoustic insulation between the inner part of the ear canal and the surroundings, the ear piece comprising a an ear tip with a stem and a shroud, the stem defining a sound conduit with a sound output opening, and the shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material, the bulb having an axis generally along the intended direction of insertion into the ear canal, a sound output opening, a generally round first end zone with a smooth outer surface, a general round second end zone with a smooth outer surface opposite the medial surface zone, and a mid zone intermediate the first end zone and the second end zone, wherein the mid zone is adapted by appropriate structural design for being softer to compression by the contact with ear canal wall than is the case with the first end zone and the second end zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60656
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13380210', '13352951', '13702665', '11997738', '13593205']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6485668713596795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675966931911306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6304698535428246
- Mean Citation Score: 181.155482
- Max Citation Score: 183.63347
- Similarity Product: 156.90871368022263

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