PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911906
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["180", "181000"]

Abstract:
An electric vehicle may include a board having two deck portions each configured to receive a foot of a rider, and a wheel assembly disposed between the deck portions. A motor assembly may drive the wheel assembly in response to board orientation and rider presence information. A rider detection mechanism may include one or more strain gauges, and may be configured to detect rider presence and rider weight information. A responsiveness of the motor may be automatically adjusted based on the rider weight information.

Claim (Index 9):
A self-balancing electric vehicle comprising:\n a board having a first deck portion and a second deck portion, collectively defining a plane and having a longitudinal axis, the first deck portion configured to support a first foot of a rider oriented generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the second deck portion configured to support a second foot of the rider oriented generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; at least one wheel mounted to the board and configured to rotate about an axle coupled to the board; an orientation sensor coupled to the board and configured to sense orientation information of the board; a first strain gauge load cell and a second strain gauge load cell spaced apart across the longitudinal axis of the board, such that the first and second strain gauge load cells sense a strain applied to the board and are configured to produce rider presence information and rider weight information based on the sensed strain; a motor controller configured to receive the orientation information and the rider presence information, and to generate a motor control signal in response; and a motor configured to receive the motor control signal from the motor controller and to rotate the at least one wheel in response, thereby propelling the electric vehicle; wherein the motor controller is further configured to determine a weight category of the rider based on the rider weight information, and to adjust the motor control signal based on the weight category, such that a same board orientation results in a different acceleration response depending on the rider weight category.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83673
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15612321', '15275067', '15432807', '14934024', '15864939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7766219968625921
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5083873078228492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7497985279586179
- Mean Citation Score: 260.114706
- Max Citation Score: 322.7913
- Similarity Product: 298.1047885609388

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

Dataset: test