PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101188
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "667000"]

Abstract:
A system for detecting the presence of an occupant of a seat. The system includes a sensing mat that includes an upper conducting layer and a lower conducting layer. At least one of the conducting layers comprises a printed electronic circuit separated into conductive zones by at least one resistive zone. The mat also includes a plurality of sensing zones and each of the sensing zones include a conductive zone from the upper conducting layer and a conductive zone from the lower conducting layer. Each of the conducting layers are connected to a controller configured to detect a change in capacitance of each of the sensing zones resulting from a change in distance between the upper conducting layer and the lower conducting layer. The controller is connected to a vehicle network and is configured to provide data to the network that indicates the absence or presence of the occupant.

Claim (Index 15):
An electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is printed onto a substrate, comprising:\n a conductive material printed onto the substrate so that a plurality of gaps exist between sections of the conductive material; and a resistive material printed onto the substrate in a position to bridge the plurality of gaps between the sections of the conductive material, wherein the resistance value of the resistive material for each gap in the plurality of gaps is individually controlled by adjusting the shape of the resistive material or the size of each gap in the plurality of gaps; wherein the electrical circuit is configured to carry an electrical signal through the sections of conductive material and across the plurality of gaps through the resistive material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13074830', '13841127', '14728366', '15188065', '11821984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6774411394241255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4881322686259377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6585102523443068
- Mean Citation Score: 164.67119800000003
- Max Citation Score: 181.84036
- Similarity Product: 128.63996627064944

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

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