PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16419961
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["248", "188300"]

Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments relate to an aircraft having an in-flight leveling system for a seat onboard the aircraft that includes a swivel mechanism providing selective rotational movement of the a rear portion of the seat to compensate for an angle of inclination of the aircraft during flight. A locking mechanism is coupled to the swivel mechanism to retain the seat in a first position for use on the ground and a second position for use during flight. An actuator moves the locking mechanism between a locked condition and an unlocked condition permitting the seat to move between the first position to the second position enabling the seat to be substantially level when the aircraft is on the ground and during flight.

Claim (Index 8):
An in-flight leveling system for adjusting a seat onboard an aircraft while the aircraft is traveling at an angle of inclination during flight, comprising:\n a pair of spaced apart base risers; a seat track and swivel mechanism coupled to the seat and to a leveling system; the leveling system comprising:\n a front pivot rod extending between the pair of spaced apart base risers and by a rear slide rod extending between the pair of spaced apart base risers and guided by arcuate slots formed in the pair of spaced apart base risers, the front pivot rod providing a front pivot point and the rear slide rod providing selective arcuate movement of an aft portion of the seat to compensate for the angle of inclination of the aircraft during the flight; \n a locking mechanism positioned beneath the seat track and swivel mechanism on at least one of the pair of spaced apart base risers and operably coupled to the seat track and swivel mechanism to retain the seat in a first position and a second position; and \n an actuator positioned beneath the seat track and swivel mechanism for moving the locking mechanism between a locked condition and an unlocked condition permitting the aft portion of the seat to move between the first position to the second position; \n whereby, the actuator moves the locking mechanism from the locked condition to the unlocked condition permitting the aft portion of the seat to move from the first position to the second position to remain substantially level during the flight due to rise of the seat track and swivel mechanism compensating for the angle of inclination of the aircraft during the flight.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06667
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15868085', '12066396', '13837625', '12643599', '12066574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064965017322927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6020702170902436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7860538732680878
- Mean Citation Score: 255.143082
- Max Citation Score: 527.2927
- Similarity Product: 521.6150655842363

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test