PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057942
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["005", "710000"]

Abstract:
When, at the initial operation of an air mattress having inflating and deflating functions or at restarting after maintenance, many air cells need to be filled with a large amount of air, the air supply/discharge pump is operated at a driving force (the first power output) close to the maximum driving capacity thereof in order to inflate the air cells as soon as possible. In the normal operation in which the bed user is lying on the bed, when the air supply/discharge pump needs to be driven in order to cause alternate inflation and deflation or in order to prevent the user from touching the bottom, the air supply/discharge pump is driven at a second or third power output lower than the first power output. Thereby, it is possible in the air mattress having inflating and deflating functions to achieve rapid pressure adjustment and alleviate bed user's discomfortable feeling due to the operation noise of the pump upon the pressure adjustment.

Claim (Index 1):
An air mattress having inflating and deflating functions, comprising:\n a plurality of air cells, the air cells being arranged in parallel in a bed longitudinal direction; a pump configured to perform air supply and air discharge for each of the air cells; and, control circuitry configured to control air pressure inside the air cells by the pump, wherein\n the control circuitry is configured to: \n set an output of the pump at a first output equal to or lower than a maximum output when the pump inflates the air cells from a state in which the air cells are pressureless to a normal use state; and \n set the output of the pump at a second output lower than the first output when the air cells are selectively and alternately inflated and deflated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01163
- Patent Class: 5.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15324703', '15324030', '13519301', '15341638', '14125336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.768288146648121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5424466782765042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7457039998109594
- Mean Citation Score: 272.357206
- Max Citation Score: 407.5229
- Similarity Product: 361.473453757125

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