PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16088974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["074", "558000"]

Abstract:
In order to make it possible to definitively restrict operation of an in-vehicle device by a passenger who is driving a vehicle, by using a simple and economic configuration, a steering device is equipped with a steering wheel and a detection mechanism. The detection mechanism has a first contact sensor that detects contact with the left hand of a driver, and is provided on the side near the in-vehicle device, and also has a second contact sensor that detects contact with the right hand, and is provided on the side away from the in-vehicle device. The detection range of the first contact sensor is set as a narrower region than that of the detection range of the second contact sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
A steering device comprising:\n a steering wheel; and a detection mechanism configured to detect contact by hands of a vehicle occupant over a predetermined region on a circumference of the steering wheel; wherein the detection mechanism includes: a first contact sensor provided on a side proximate to a vehicle-mounted device as viewed from a front of the steering wheel, and configured to detect contact by one hand of the vehicle occupant; and a second contact sensor provided on a side remote from the vehicle-mounted device, and configured to detect contact by another hand of the vehicle occupant; wherein a first detection range detected by the first contact sensor is set to a region that is narrower than a second detection range detected by the second contact sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16949
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15342379', '13670896', '14376473', '15534113', '14370273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.78788621892435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4392385060647956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7530214476383945
- Mean Citation Score: 153.65279600000005
- Max Citation Score: 157.8803
- Similarity Product: 112.78744560608268

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