PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101188
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "667000"]

Abstract:
A system for detecting the presence of an occupant of a seat. The system includes a sensing mat that includes an upper conducting layer and a lower conducting layer. At least one of the conducting layers comprises a printed electronic circuit separated into conductive zones by at least one resistive zone. The mat also includes a plurality of sensing zones and each of the sensing zones include a conductive zone from the upper conducting layer and a conductive zone from the lower conducting layer. Each of the conducting layers are connected to a controller configured to detect a change in capacitance of each of the sensing zones resulting from a change in distance between the upper conducting layer and the lower conducting layer. The controller is connected to a vehicle network and is configured to provide data to the network that indicates the absence or presence of the occupant.

Claim (Index 7):
A system for detecting the presence and determining the position of an occupant of a seat, comprising:\n a sensing mat configured to be located in the seat, the mat including an upper conducting layer and a lower conducting layer, wherein at least one of the conducting layers comprises a printed electronic circuit separated into conductive zones by resistive zones; wherein the mat includes a plurality of sensing zones and each of the sensing zones include a conductive zone from the upper conducting layer and a conductive zone from the lower conducting layer, and wherein each of the two conducting layers are connected to a controller configured to detect a change in capacitance of each of the sensing zones resulting from a change in distance between the upper conducting layer and the lower conducting layer; and wherein the controller is connected to a vehicle network and is configured to provide data to the network and wherein the data indicates the absence or presence of the occupant in the seat, and wherein the controller, having determined there is an occupant present in the seat, is configured to provide further data to the network and wherein the further data indicates the position of the occupant in the seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13074830', '13841127', '14728366', '15188065', '11821984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6771046872392055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896231256450278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6583565310797878
- Mean Citation Score: 164.67119800000003
- Max Citation Score: 181.84036
- Similarity Product: 126.8031605807662

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