PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["092", "096000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a pneumatic linear actuator to adjust the contour or shape of a vehicle component, comprising an air cell arrangement with a plurality of inflatable air cells arranged in series in a longitudinal direction and fluidly interconnected by a channel, wherein a guiding rod extends through the channel and is firmly connected with a first end of the air cell arrangement, wherein at the second end of the air cell arrangement a passage opening is provided through which the guiding rod extends and is guided in a displaceable manner, such that by introduction of pressurized air into the air cells, the air cells expand in the longitudinal direction and displace the second end along the guiding rod in longitudinal direction, and wherein a tube is hermetically attached to the passage opening in the second end of the air cell arrangement and receives the second end of the guiding rod in a displaceable manner.

Claim (Index 1):
A pneumatic linear actuator for a vehicle component to adjust the contour or shape of the component comprising:\n an air cell arrangement with a plurality of inflatable air cells arranged in series in a longitudinal direction, wherein the series of air cells are fluidly interconnected by a channel extending through the series of air cells, wherein the air cells can be connected to a source for pressurized air; and a guiding rod extending through the channel from the first end of the guiding rod to a second end of the guiding rod, wherein the air cell arrangement extends along the guiding rod from a first end to a second end opposite the first end; wherein the first end of the air cell arrangement is firmly connected to the first end of the guiding rod and wherein a passage opening is provided at the second end of the air cell arrangement, wherein the guiding rod extends through the passage opening in a displaceable and guided manner such that the series of air cells expands in the longitudinal direction along the guiding rod while displacing the second end of the air cell arrangement along the guiding rod in longitudinal direction when pressurized air is introduced into the air cells; and a tube attached to the passage opening in the second end of the air cell arrangement, wherein the tube receives the second end of the guiding rod in a displaceable manner, wherein the tube hermetically seals the passage opening in the second end of the air cell arrangement, and wherein an opening of the tube facing away from the passage opening is located at a distance from the second end of the guiding rod and is hermetically closed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39706
- Patent Class: 92.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11571545', '11877064', '15308142', '15233011', '14980528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6977413576697047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4246952428702877
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.670436746189763
- Mean Citation Score: 137.979324
- Max Citation Score: 152.35088000000005
- Similarity Product: 116.36787615570071

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

Dataset: test