PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743559
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["297", "284600"]

Abstract:
One embodiment of a lumbar support system includes one or more air cells adapted to be mounted to a vehicle seat assembly, a pump selectively inflating the air cells, and a valve fluidly connected between the pump and the air cells. The valve includes a body defining a pair of cavities corresponding with each of the air cells. The valve further includes an inflate plunger movable in one of the cavities to selectively open the cavity and a deflate plunger movable in the other cavity to selectively open the other cavity. Furthermore, the valve includes an actuator movably coupled to the body between a first operational position to inflate the air cell, and a second operational position to deflate the air cell. An electrical switch is electrically coupled to an electrical input of the pump and closed when the actuator is moved to the first or second operational positions.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle seat assembly comprising:\n a seat back; a seat bottom coupled to said seat back; and a lumbar support system coupled to at least one of said seat back and said seat bottom, said lumbar support system having:\n at least one air cell mounted to at least one of said seat back and said seat bottom; \n a pump fluidly connected to said at least one air cell to selectively inflate said at least one air cell, and said pump having an electrical input; and \n a valve fluidly connected between said pump and said at least one air cell with said valve having:\n a body defining a pair of cavities corresponding with each one of said at least one air cell; \n an inflate plunger movable in one of said cavities to selectively open said cavity; \n a deflate plunger movable in the other of said cavities to selectively open the other of said cavities; \n an actuator movably coupled to said body between a first operational position to move said inflate plunger to open said cavity such that said pump fluidly communicates with said at least one air cell to inflate said at least one air cell, and a second operational position to move said deflate plunger to open the other of said cavities such that said at least one air cell fluidly communicates with the atmosphere to deflate said at least one air cell; and \n an electrical switch coupled to said electrical input of said pump and closed when said actuator is moved to any one of said first and second operational positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15806828', '14063647', '15333969', '12412229', '15337552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7908028406738651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4464041395262527
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7563629705591038
- Mean Citation Score: 194.920656
- Max Citation Score: 201.49355
- Similarity Product: 170.3712980333686

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