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 10):
A method of forming a vehicle seat back, the method comprising the steps of:\n forming a lower seat back portion comprising a first side lower frame member and second side lower frame member; forming an upper seat back portion comprising a first side upper frame member and second side upper frame member, each side upper frame member comprising a gear sector comprising a lower edge with sector gear teeth; connecting the upper seat back portion to the lower seat back portion with pivot connections pivotally connecting the lower side frame members to the upper side frame members; and providing pivot drive arrangements at each first side lower frame member and second side lower frame member, each drive arrangement comprising: a pinion gear with gear teeth engaged with the associated sector gear teeth; and a motor assembly mounted to the associated lower side frame member, the motor assembly comprising a motor and an output shaft driving the pinion gear in each of two rotational directions, wherein 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.

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): 0.8152383708828541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481703935075772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.781884927302146
- Mean Citation Score: 292.839914
- Max Citation Score: 293.5584
- Similarity Product: 241.81205357551573

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