PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["296", "180500"]

Abstract:
An active front deflector assembly having a deflector panel, actuator, and linkage assemblies each with a predetermined geometry and ratio of links to each other for movement of the active front deflector assembly between at least a deployed position and a retracted position. The deflector panel is positionable at multiple heights. The assembly deploys and retracts based on vehicle requirements, and, when deployed, redirects the air flow in the front of the vehicle to improve the vehicle aerodynamics for either fuel economy or performance characteristics. Additionally, it allows for the deflector panel to retract so the vehicle meets ground clearances, etc. The deflector panel is also both rigid and semi-rigid to absorb impact energy. A drive shaft transmits the drive from one side to the other side. The deflector is both rigid and semi rigid to absorb impact energy.

Claim (Index 16):
An active front deflector assembly for a motor vehicle, comprising:\n at least one deflector panel including a semi-rigid portion and a rigid upper spine portion, where the deflector panel selectively deploys and retracts between a deployed position within an air flow, a stowed position out of the air flow, and predetermined partially deployed positions therebetween, where the deployment and partial deployment of the deflector panel improves aerodynamics; at least two linkage assemblies attached to the rigid upper spine of the deflector panel and connected to the vehicle, each linkage assembly forming only a parallelogram shape when in the deployed position and when in the retracted position; and an actuator; a drive shaft operably coupled to the actuator and to the at least two linkage assemblies, where the actuator is in communication with the vehicle and automatically deploys the deployable panel under predetermined conditions and automatically retracts the deployable panel when predetermined conditions for continued deployment are no longer met; wherein the predetermined conditions are selected from the group consisting of vehicle speeds, wind directions, yaw, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9125
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15318233', '15318193', '15833422', '15921188', '15318117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8556690512987263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.497343765375916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8198365227064452
- Mean Citation Score: 352.687908
- Max Citation Score: 356.18732
- Similarity Product: 353.1534931703282

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test