PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["280", "743100"]

Abstract:
Vehicle safety devices, heat shields used in such devices and related methods are provided. The heat shield for use in vehicle airbags can include a woven base substrate and a needlepunched nonwoven substrate comprising silicon-containing fibers. The needlepunched nonwoven can be needlepunched to the woven base substrate such that, when the heat shield is positioned within an interior space of an airbag, the needlepunched nonwoven substrate faces apertures of an inflator within the airbag.

Claim (Index 9):
A vehicle safety device, comprising:\n an airbag comprising a base fabric and forming an interior space, wherein the airbag defines an aperture; a pyrotechnic device positioned within working proximity to the aperture defined in the airbag, wherein the pyrotechnic device is configured to fill the interior space of the airbag with a gas upon ignition; and a heat shield positioned within the interior of the airbag and encircling the pyrotechnic device to cover apertures within the pyrotechnic device, wherein the heat shield comprises:\n a woven first substrate; \n a needlepunched nonwoven substrate comprising silicon-containing fibers, the needlepunched nonwoven being needlepunched to the woven first substrate such that, when the heat shield is positioned within the interior space of the airbag, the needlepunched nonwoven substrate faces the apertures of an inflator within the airbag.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12507458', '14423906', '14991144', '14441951', '13610305']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8255926982357795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930842444859043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.792341852860792
- Mean Citation Score: 239.472892
- Max Citation Score: 283.48428
- Similarity Product: 258.4641785299874

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