PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["280", "728300"]

Abstract:
A trim component for a vehicle interior is disclosed. The trim component may provide an opening for airbag deployment and may comprise a substrate; a foam layer and a cover comprising a support layer coupled to a skin layer. The support layer may comprise at least one of polyurethane coating; two-component reactive aliphatic polyurethane; two-component reactive aromatic polyurethane; polyurea; acrylic elastomer; aromatic TPU; aliphatic TPU; TPO. The support layer may comprise a polyurethane coating. The polyurethane coating may be sprayed on the skin layer. The polyurethane coating may comprise a waterborne polyurethane. A thickness of the support layer may be generally less than a thickness of the skin layer. The trim component may comprise first and second features to facilitate deployment of the airbag through the opening. The support layer may limit fragmentation/separation of the skin layer during airbag deployment. The trim component may comprise an instrument panel.

Claim (Index 6):
The trim component of  claim 2  comprising a first feature and a second feature; wherein the first feature and the second feature are configured to facilitate deployment of the airbag through the opening by facilitating formation of the opening through the foam layer, the support layer and the skin layer; wherein the first feature comprises a notch in the substrate; wherein the second feature comprises a notch in the skin layer and an aperture in the support layer aligned with the notch in the skin layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63492
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13349411', '14767109', '12447379', '12672148', '13394820']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8358683118027909
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977069183010287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8020521724526146
- Mean Citation Score: 243.84008
- Max Citation Score: 247.04536
- Similarity Product: 170.96965074412344

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