PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["297", "180130"]

Abstract:
A vehicle seat includes a thermal comfort module installed in a recess of a foam cushion beneath a trim cover. The thermal comfort module includes an air duct, a thermoelectric device, a heat sink extending inside the air duct from the thermoelectric device, and an air mover that causes air to flow from the passenger cabin, through the seating surface, along the air duct and heat sink, and back out of the seat. In a seat cooling mode, the air flowing along air duct absorbs heat from one side of the thermoelectric device via the heat sink while the opposite side of the thermoelectric device absorbs heat from the trim cover via thermal conduction. The thickness of a foam cushion can be made greatest where most needed, such as at the rear portion of the seat bottom.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle seat comprising a seat bottom and a seat back, at least one of the seat bottom or the seat back comprising:\n an air permeable trim cover including a seating surface; an air duct underlying the trim cover and defining an air flow channel in the seat; a thermoelectric device underlying the trim cover and having opposite first and second sides; a heat sink attached to the first side of the thermoelectric device and extending into the air flow channel; and an air mover operable to cause air to flow into the seat through the trim cover, along the air flow channel and heat sink, and out of the seat at a location away from the seating surface, wherein the second side of the thermoelectric device is outside the air flow channel and arranged to modulate the temperature of the trim cover by thermal conduction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12857
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15979025', '15890655', '14771084', '15966527', '14540449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7654475711556571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534021511501003
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7423049651901916
- Mean Citation Score: 273.98970999999995
- Max Citation Score: 407.80658
- Similarity Product: 375.66618623795983

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