PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["293", "133000"]

Abstract:
A pedestrian protection device for a motor vehicle includes a bumper crossmember and a deformation element which is arranged on the bumper crossmember and which has a first element and a second element which are displaceable relative to each other in the event of a collision of the motor vehicle, and a mechanical locking mechanism. The locking mechanism has a movable locking element which is pretensionable or is pretensioned with a spring device and which is arranged on the first element or on the second element, and with a depression or step to which the other of the first element and the second element can be latched in a form-fitting manner. In the event of a high displacement speed which is greater than or equal to a predetermined second displacement speed, the locking mechanism prevents displacement of the first element relative to the second element by means of self-locking of the locking element. In the event of an average displacement speed which is lower than the predetermined second displacement speed and greater than a predetermined first displacement speed, the locking mechanism permits displacement of the first element and of the second element relative to each other.

Claim (Index 3):
The pedestrian protection device as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein\n the locking mechanism has a contact surface which is arranged and configured such that, upon a relative movement of the first element and the second element with respect to each other, the locking element is moveable along the contact surface in contact with the contact surface counter to the spring force of the spring device and is therefore pretensionable before the locking element reaches the form fit with the depression or the step, and the spring device, the locking element and the contact surface interact in such a manner that:\n at the high displacement speed, when the locking element is in engagement with the contact surface, a movement of the locking element along the contact surface and therefore a displacement of the first element and the second element relative to each other is prevented by the self locking of the locking element, \n at the average displacement speed, when the locking element is in engagement with the contact surface, a movement of the locking element along the contact surface is permitted, and, owing to a mass inertia of the locking element, the locking element, on leaving the contact surface, springs over the depression or step, and therefore does not latch into place in a form fitting manner, and a further displacement of the first element and the second element with respect to each other is permitted, and wherein, \n at the slow displacement speed, when the locking element is in engagement with the contact surface, a movement of the locking element along the contact surface is permitted, and the locking element latches into place in a form fitting manner with the depression or step at the slow displacement speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04478
- Patent Class: 293.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15625646', '15852085', '15625621', '15852370', '15271325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7013624650282566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496914468512914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6809176653767224
- Mean Citation Score: 309.2435480000001
- Max Citation Score: 339.55527
- Similarity Product: 283.2557192881286

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

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