PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["180", "181000"]

Abstract:
An electric skateboard with a hands free control mechanism includes weight sensors embedded in the front and rear truck base plates to measure both the total weight of the rider as well as their weight distribution on the deck. An advanced skate control circuit uses these weight signals from the base plate to control the motor power, and includes the ability to detect when the rider is kicking the board. During these kicking events, the skate control algorithm changes to a mode which minimises any rapid changes to the skateboard velocity so that the rider will remain stable with just one foot on the deck.

Claim (Index 19):
An electric skateboard, comprising:\n (a) a deck; (b) at least one motor; (c) a battery electrically coupled to the at least one motor; (d) a front truck assembly comprising a front base plate mounted to a front underside of the deck and comprising a front weight sensor positioned to directly or indirectly measure a force exerted on the front base plate by the skateboard deck, and a front hanger pivotably coupled to the front base plate and comprising a front axle; (e) a rear truck assembly comprising a rear base plate mounted to a rear underside of the deck and comprising a rear weight sensor positioned to directly or indirectly measure a force exerted on the rear base plate by the skateboard deck, and a rear hanger pivotably coupled to the rear base plate and comprising a rear axle; (e) front and rear pairs of wheels, each pair of wheels mounted to the front and rear axles respectively, wherein at least one of the front and rear pairs of wheels is coupled to and rotatably driven by the at least one motor; and (f) at least one controller communicative with the front and rear weight sensors and the at least one motor, and comprising a processor and a memory having encoded thereon program code executable by the processor to operate the at least one motor in response to measurements received from the front and rear weight sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5942
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15607372', '13764630', '13288287', '12383318', '15445916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7765023688529374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986699650012783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487191284677716
- Mean Citation Score: 247.993244
- Max Citation Score: 272.27817000000005
- Similarity Product: 207.0072124660224

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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