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 19):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein:\n the dielectric layer comprises an air gap dielectric supported by a compression spring assembly; the compression spring assembly comprises third and fourth plastic layers supported and held apart to form an air gap by a flat compression spring; the flat compression spring is formed from a patterned metal plate comprising a plurality of spring leaves distributed across top and bottom surfaces of the patterned metal plate; the plurality of spring leaves comprises a first spring leaf comprising a first tab configured to interface with the third plastic layer and a second spring leaf comprising a second tab configured to interface with the third plastic layer; and the first and second tabs are configured to secure the flat compression spring to the third and fourth plastic layers to form the compression spring assembly.

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): 0.5852270799088926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506399347309273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5773443066489307
- Mean Citation Score: 205.568734
- Max Citation Score: 211.15443
- Similarity Product: 112.71492820067344

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