PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["177", "136000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to detect and/or classify a vehicle occupant, such as a passenger seated within the cockpit of a vehicle. An occupant classification system includes an occupant weight sensor, an occupant presence sensor, and a logic device configured to communicate with the occupant sensors. The occupant weight sensor includes at least first and second conductive electrodes separated by a dielectric layer, top and bottom protective plastic layers configured to support the respective first and second conductive electrodes, and adhesive layers disposed between the plastic layers and the conductive electrodes and between the conductive electrodes and the dielectric layer. The top protective plastic layer is longer and/or wider than the first conductive electrode and the bottom protective plastic layer is longer and/or wider than the second conductive electrode to provide edge protection against electrical shorts for the first and second conductive electrodes.

Claim (Index 1):
An occupant weight sensor configured to provide occupant weight sensor signals associated with a passenger seat for a vehicle, the occupant weight sensor comprising:\n a first conductive electrode; a second conductive electrode; a dielectric layer disposed between the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode; a first plastic layer that is longer and/or wider than the first conductive electrode, wherein the first conductive electrode is disposed between the first plastic layer and the dielectric layer; a second plastic layer that is longer and/or wider than the second conductive electrode, wherein the second conductive electrode is disposed between the second plastic layer and the dielectric layer; and at least one adhesive layer disposed between the top protective plastic layer and the first conductive electrode, the bottom protective plastic layer and the second conductive electrode, the first conductive electrode and the dielectric layer, and/or the second conductive electrode and the dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 177.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16072475', '11266091', '11475107', '11948730', '12169431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5894776002840041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4885703149679228
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.579386871752396
- Mean Citation Score: 205.568734
- Max Citation Score: 211.15443
- Similarity Product: 142.86219970385312

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