PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["200", "00500A"]

Abstract:
A thin keyboard device is described herein. In one or more implementations, a keyboard device includes a plurality of keys, and a housing that includes a structural printed circuit board (PCB). The structural PCB includes, for each of the plurality of keys, a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace. The keyboard device further includes a key-switch mechanism for each of the plurality of keys. The key-switch mechanism includes a conductive material oriented towards the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace, and is configured to cause the conductive material to move downwards, when the key is depressed, to electrically connect the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace of the depressed key.

Claim (Index 1):
A keyboard device comprising:\n a plurality of keys; a housing comprising a three-layer membrane, the three-layer membrane comprising, for at least one key of the plurality of keys, a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace positioned on a bottom layer of the three-layer membrane, a conductive material positioned on a top layer of the three-layer membrane, and a spacer layer positioned between the top layer and the bottom layer of the three-layer membrane, the at least one key mounted to the housing above the respective first conductive trace and second conductive trace of the three-layer membrane; and a key-switch mechanism for the at least one key, the key-switch mechanism configured to collapse the three-layer membrane, when the at least one key is depressed, such that the conductive material on the top layer of the three-layer membrane moves downwards through the spacer layer to electrically connect the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace of the depressed key.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45283
- Patent Class: 200.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15270245', '14507713', '14736151', '12710996', '12712102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8071961891383612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4717428195328468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7736508521778098
- Mean Citation Score: 222.471594
- Max Citation Score: 339.6288
- Similarity Product: 274.8571968566895

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