PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191556
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "086000"]

Abstract:
A speaker system such as a sound bar assembly having a plurality of speaker units and improved sound quality is provided. Opposing mating portions of front and back panels of the assembly or system are fused or welded together to form outer boundary and interior joints where the front and back panels are welded together. The front and back panels are spaced apart at their first and second ends to define first and second speaker compartments, respectively, separated by a central compartment. A speaker unit is positioned in each of the speaker compartments. The speaker compartments are acoustically isolated from one another by the interior joints to improve the sound quality.

Claim (Index 17):
A speaker system having a plurality of speaker units and improved sound quality for use in a vehicle, the system comprising:\n a front panel having inner and outer surfaces and a plurality of mating portions including an outer boundary mating portion formed about the perimeter of the front panel, a first interior mating portion extending between opposite sides of the outer boundary mating portion at a first end of the front panel and a second interior mating portion extending between opposite sides of the outer boundary mating portion at a second end of the front panel; the front panel having a first sound opening at the first end and a second sound opening at the second end; a back panel having inner and outer surfaces and a plurality of mating portions that oppose corresponding mating portions of the front panel, the mating portions of the back panel including an outer boundary mating portion formed about the perimeter of the back panel, a first interior mating portion extending between opposite sides of the outer boundary mating portion of the back panel at a first end of the back panel, and a second interior mating portion extending between opposite sides of the outer boundary mating portion of the back panel at a second end of the back panel, wherein opposing mating portions of the front and back panels are fused or welded together to form outer boundary and interior joints where the front and back panels are joined, the front and back panels being spaced apart at their first and second ends to define first and second speaker compartments, respectively, separated by a central compartment; and a first speaker unit positioned in the first speaker compartment and mounted to transmit sound through the first sound opening and a second speaker unit positioned in the second speaker compartment and mounted to transmit sound through the second sound opening wherein the speaker compartments are acoustically isolated from one another by the interior joints.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84375
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15267401', '13852130', '15910110', '15985241', '15803816']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7025366053154549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596617606379464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6919447054218558
- Mean Citation Score: 378.787024
- Max Citation Score: 494.36072
- Similarity Product: 480.3253230144786

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

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