PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A non-contact obstacle detection (NCOD) system for an opening in a vehicle includes a cover panel, such as a glass pane, slidable between opened and closed positions within the opening. The system includes one or more infrared time-of-flight (IR-TOF) sensors which measure the length of a beam of infrared light by measuring the time that the infrared light in the beam takes to travel the length of the beam and to reflect back to the sensor. The IR-TOF sensors may be configured to provide a beam of light along either the side edge of the frame parallel to the sliding direction or a terminal edge generally transverse to the sliding direction. Methods are provided for detecting obstacles within the opening of the frame by controllers using the lengths of beams from each of those different beam configurations, and for self-calibrating the system.

Claim (Index 6):
The non-contact obstacle detection system of  claim 1 , wherein the first controller is configured to calculate an actual closing velocity as the rate of change of the actual length of the first beam over time; and\n wherein the first controller is configured to detect the obstacle within the opening by sensing the actual closing velocity being greater than an interruption velocity indicative of a sudden change in the actual length of the first beam caused by the insertion of the obstacle between the first IR-TOF sensor and the cover panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15493285', '11756786', '12008430', '15589224', '15490295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3980653618406634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798567810426148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4062445037608586
- Mean Citation Score: 151.34718000000004
- Max Citation Score: 168.65672
- Similarity Product: 122.0269692596102

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