PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770418
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["280", "164100"]

Abstract:
A vehicle step system includes a footplate, having a footplate top side which can be stepped on and a cleaning device for cleaning the footplate top side, wherein the cleaning device has at least one air duct having at least one opening. The air duct can be supplied with compressed air, such that a compressed air stream can flow out of the opening. The opening is directed in the direction of the footplate top side in such a way that the compressed air stream strikes the footplate top side.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for cleaning a footplate of a vehicle step system, wherein the method includes the step of providing a vehicle step system having a footplate having a foot plate top side which is stepped on and a cleaning device having at least one air duct having at least one opening directed in the direction of the footplate top side, wherein a compressed air stream flows out of the opening when the air duct is supplied with compressed air, and wherein the footplate slides from a deployed position into a retracted position, wherein the footplate top side is supplied with compressed air during the retraction process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06522
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13127074', '14248509', '11475332', '15843987', '12613157']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7789187920173558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828802843364022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7493149412492605
- Mean Citation Score: 114.18329
- Max Citation Score: 117.64242
- Similarity Product: 76.8428332537973

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

Dataset: test