PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["297", "452480"]

Abstract:
A vehicle seat component includes: a seat pad having a seating portion and an outer portion; and a seat cover serving as an outer cover material being bonded to the seat pad, wherein at least a part of the seat cover at which the seat cover is bonded to the outer portion, is provided with an extension part that extends from an end of the outer portion at a side opposite to the seating portion, wherein the outer portion is provided with a groove at a rear surface part of the seat pad, the groove extending along the end and having a bottom surface at a position closer to the seating portion with respect to the rear surface part, and wherein at least a part of the extension part is integrally bonded to a wall surface of the groove by the integral foam-molding.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of manufacturing the vehicle seat component according to  claim 1 , the method comprising:\n preparing a lower mold which has an inner surface corresponding to the seating portion, the outer portion, and the wall surface of the groove of the seat pad, and an upper mold which is matched with the lower mold to foam a cavity; setting the seat cover to the lower mold such that a front surface of the seat cover abuts on an inner surface corresponding to the seating portion and the outer portion; setting the extension part such that an outer surface thereof abuts on an inner surface corresponding to the wall surface; injecting a urethane foam resin material into the cavity and closing the upper mold to foam and cure the urethane foam resin material; and opening the upper mold to remove the vehicle seat component after the urethane foam resin material is foamed and cured.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13825707', '15464806', '15162906', '15747977', '15333829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7774119021389445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4463810978006364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7443088217051137
- Mean Citation Score: 184.143234
- Max Citation Score: 190.22562
- Similarity Product: 156.14158938370585

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

Dataset: test