PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "488000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle trim part having a layered, decorative finish is provided. The part includes a polymeric substrate, a decorative layer overlying the polymeric substrate and a light-transmissive, protective layer overlying and protecting the decorative layer. The protective layer includes a front surface and a rear surface having a surface portion with a translucent surface finish. The decorative layer has an opening extending from a rear surface of the decorative layer to a front surface of the decorative layer and aligned with the translucent surface finish. Both a cross section of the opening at the front surface of the decorative layer and the translucent surface finish are sized and shaped to form a light pattern which is visible at the front of the part when artificial lighting illuminates the translucent surface finish from the rear of the part.

Claim (Index 35):
An illuminable vehicle trim part comprising:\n a polymeric substrate; a decorative layer overlying the polymeric substrate; a light-transmissive, protective layer overlying and protecting the decorative layer, the protective layer including a front surface and a rear surface having a plurality of separate surface portions, each of the surface portions having a translucent surface finish to conceal illumination apparatus rearward of the part, the decorative layer having openings which extend from a rear surface of the decorative layer to a front surface of the decorative layer, each of the openings being aligned with one of the translucent surface finishes, the polymeric substrate, decorative layer and protective layer being molded as a laminate in a unitary molding operation; and at least one source of illumination for emitting rays of light and disposed at the rear of the part so that the light rays fall on the translucent surface finish, each source being configured to be electrically coupled to an electrical system of the vehicle and wherein cross sections of the openings at the front surface of the decorative layer and their corresponding translucent surface finishes are sized and shaped to form light patterns which are visible at the front of the part when the at least one source of illumination illuminates the translucent surface finishes with the light rays from the rear of the part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68519
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14603401', '14087579', '15637517', '14603403', '14603397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8419592948806097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837021595826088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8061335813508096
- Mean Citation Score: 227.77625000000003
- Max Citation Score: 237.47444
- Similarity Product: 178.6068455009174

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

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