PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "045000"]

Abstract:
Methods and mechanisms for a shoulder belt assembly for a vehicle are provided. The shoulder belt assembly includes a shoulder belt mechanically coupled to a seat in the vehicle, a control module operationally coupled to the shoulder belt and a vehicle management system, the control module configured to detect current movement of the vehicle and passenger information for a passenger in a seat, identify an event, and generate a customized control signal that is a function of the current movement of the vehicle and a physical characteristic of the passenger in the seat. The shoulder belt assembly also has a load limiting mechanism configured to respond to the control signal by, causing a fold in the shoulder belt, the fold having the characteristics of (i) being oriented width-wise, and (ii) having a substantially uniform fold depth; and holding the fold in accordance with the control signal.

Claim (Index 2):
The shoulder belt assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the load limiting mechanism comprises:\n a braking component coupled to the shoulder belt, the braking component moveable between (a) an open position, in which it does not make contact with the shoulder belt, and (b) a deployed position, in which it makes contact with the shoulder belt sufficient to fold a portion of the shoulder belt over the braking component, resulting in a fold of the maximum fold depth; and an actuator configured to receive the control signal and change the position of the braking component responsive thereto, to cause the fold in the shoulder belt and achieve the fold depth in accordance with the control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12557625', '11083280', '14651251', '09969160', '15476315']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4531394856950163
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712832850482364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4549538656303383
- Mean Citation Score: 167.203806
- Max Citation Score: 174.23412
- Similarity Product: 129.33360887389898

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