PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["280", "005514"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a system for adjusting the height of vehicles. The vehicle is supported by a hollow cylinder and a piston having an undersized piston skirt is mounted on the suspension system's coil spring, and sealingly slidable within the cylinder bore. When a fluid is introduced into the expandable pressure space between the piston and the cylinder top, the piston and cylinder are forced apart, raising the vehicle. The undersized piston skirt can extend beyond the end of the cylinder, allowing the piston a greater travel length within the cylinder bore. The invention may be operated manually by a vehicle driver through push buttons, which can be the vehicle's existing cruise control buttons. Alternatively, the system can be automated using a control unit to automatically adjust ground clearance to avoid collision with obstacles in the vehicle's path. In another embodiment, the lift system, or any lift system, is prevented from activating, and deactivates (if previously activated) if the vehicle is travelling at excessive speed.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for a vehicle with an underbody having a ground clearance, said vehicle having a lift s stem that can controllably lift and lower the underbody to achieve a desired ground clearance, a ground clearance sensor that senses the ground clearance in the vehicle's path, and a vehicle speed sensor that senses excessive speed of the vehicle, comprising:\n a control unit adapted to be operably connected to the lift system, the ground clearance sensor and the vehicle speed sensor, wherein the control unit controls the lift system to automatically lift the underbody when the ground clearance sensor senses the ground clearance in the vehicle's path to be less than the desired ground clearance; and wherein the control unit controls the lift system to automatically lower the underbody when the ground clearance sensor senses the ground clearance in the vehicle's path is greater than the desired ground clearance; wherein the control unit prevents activation of the lift system and lifting of the underbody if the speed sensor senses excessive speed while the underbody is in a lowered position; and wherein the control unit deactivates lifting of the underbody by the lift system and lowers the underbody if the speed sensor senses excessive speed while the underbody in a raised position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84314
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15406649', '14954712', '14636065', '14144002', '13595972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8517372758304038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6238941922529118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8289529674726547
- Mean Citation Score: 485.846728
- Max Citation Score: 561.7913
- Similarity Product: 545.1424740573584

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

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