PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16390264
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["248", "429000"]

Abstract:
A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The locking pawls may each include locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that the locking elements restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.

Claim (Index 1):
A seat-track assembly comprising:\n a first track member having locking features; a second track member slidably supported by the first track member; a locking mechanism disposed at least partially between the first track member and the second track member and including a first locking pawl and a second locking pawl, each of the first and second locking pawls being independently movable between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein:\n the first and second locking pawls each include a main body and a plurality of locking elements extending from the main body, \n the plurality of locking elements of the first locking pawl are engaged with selected ones of the locking features when the first locking pawl is in the locked state, \n the plurality of locking elements of the second locking pawl are engaged with selected ones of the locking features when the second locking pawl is in the locked state, \n the plurality of locking elements of each of the first and second locking pawls are disengaged from the locking features in the unlocked state, \n relative movement between the first track member and the second track member is restricted when either of the first and second locking pawls is in the locked state, \n the first track member and the second track member are allowed to move relative to each other when the first and second locking pawls are in the unlocked state, \n the locking features each have a width that is at least double a width of each of the plurality of locking elements of each of the first and second locking pawls such that the plurality of locking elements of the first locking pawl restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in one direction when the first locking pawl is in the locked state; \n an actuator operable to selectively apply a force on the first and second locking pawls to maintain the first and second locking pawls in the unlocked state, the actuator includes an elongated bar extending parallel to longitudinal axes of the first and second track members, the elongated bar includes a peg extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axes and through an aperture in the second track member; and a housing attached to the second track member and disposed between the first and second track members, the housing defining a cavity having a plurality of pockets, the plurality of pockets extending axially through the housing, wherein the elongated bar of the actuator is movably disposed within the cavity, and wherein each of the first and second locking pawls includes an actuation arm that extends at least partially into a respective pocket of the plurality of pockets and reciprocates therein as each of the first and second locking pawls move between the locked state and unlocked state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14886392', '14349817', '12567501', '14733278', '09995241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8233591686526822
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5988650993842319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8009097617258372
- Mean Citation Score: 345.45839399999994
- Max Citation Score: 511.67865
- Similarity Product: 505.7259675700306

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

Dataset: test