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 3):
A vehicle seat as defined in  claim 1 , wherein the air duct comprises an intake port and an exhaust port spaced apart from the intake port in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12857
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15979025', '15890655', '14771084', '15966527', '14540449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7885790319992315
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308973248214194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7628108612814504
- Mean Citation Score: 273.98970999999995
- Max Citation Score: 407.80658
- Similarity Product: 296.1815578554773

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