PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762184
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["297", "354110"]

Abstract:
A vehicle seat back includes a lower seat back portion and including side frame members and an upper seat back portion including side frame members including a gear sector including a lower edge with sector gear teeth. Pivot connections pivotally connect the lower side frame members to the upper side frame members. A pinion gear with gear teeth is engaged with the sector gear teeth. A motor assembly is mounted to one or both of the lower side frame members and includes a motor and an output shaft driving the pinion gear in each of two rotational directions. The rotation of the motor in one direction, pivots the upper seat back relative to the lower seat back in a forward pivot direction and rotation of the motors in an opposite direction pivots the seat back relative to the lower seat back in a rearward direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle seat back comprising:\n a lower seat back portion comprising a lower inboard side frame member defining a pivot support at an upper region and a lower outboard side frame member defining a pivot support at an upper region; an upper seat back portion comprising an upper inboard side frame member with a pivot support and with an associated inboard gear sector comprising a lower edge with inboard sector gear teeth and a lower outboard side frame member with a pivot support and with an associated gear sector comprising a lower edge with outboard sector gear teeth; an inboard pivot connection pivotally connecting the lower inboard side frame member to the upper inboard side frame member at the pivot supports; an outboard pivot connection pivotally connecting the lower outboard side frame member to the upper outboard side frame member at the pivot supports; an inboard pinion gear with gear teeth engaged with the inboard sector gear teeth, the inboard pinion gear being connected to the lower inboard side frame member for rotation in each of two rotational directions; an outboard pinion gear with gear teeth engaged with the outboard sector gear teeth, the outboard pinion gear being connected to the lower outboard side frame member for rotation in each of two rotational directions; an inboard motor assembly mounted to the lower inboard side frame member and comprising a motor and an output shaft connected to the inboard pinion gear for driving the inboard pinion gear in each of the two rotational directions; and an outboard motor assembly mounted to the lower outboard side frame member and comprising a motor and an output shaft connected to the outboard pinion gear for driving the outboard pinion gear in each of the two rotational directions, whereby operation of the motors in one direction, pivots the upper seat back relative to the lower seat back in a forward pivot direction and operation of the motors in another direction pivots the seat back relative to the lower seat back in a rearward direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15646703', '13773207', '14021440', '12997657', '10504355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8148513668015795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856335814349426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7819295882649159
- Mean Citation Score: 292.839914
- Max Citation Score: 293.5584
- Similarity Product: 222.84111465568543

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