PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16361326
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["074", "512000"]

Abstract:
An accelerator device includes a pedal pad and a strain gauge. When a driver of a vehicle having the accelerator device depresses the pedal pad, the pedal pad is deformed in a direction of a blank arrow. The strain gauge senses the displacement amount of the pedal pad in the direction of the blank arrow and outputs an electric signal, which corresponds to the displacement amount, to an outside as the depression amount of the accelerator device. When the driver removes a foot from the pedal pad, the pedal pad returns to a state of the pedal pad that is not depressed by the driver. Therefore, it is possible to limit occurrence of that the depression amount of the pedal pad becomes an unintended value due to, for example, catching of the pedal pad by a floor mat. As a result, the accelerator device can reliably sense the depression amount.

Claim (Index 10):
The pedal device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a hysteresis mechanism that is placed between:\n a base, which supports at least two end parts of the pedal pad; and one of the at least two end parts of the pedal pad, wherein the hysteresis mechanism is operable to generate hysteresis of a depressing force characteristic in response to an amount of depressing force of the operator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44776
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11657926', '10854837', '14760007', '12215123', '14383294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7866432677097113
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4285535787158192
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.750834298810322
- Mean Citation Score: 136.27863200000002
- Max Citation Score: 138.49028
- Similarity Product: 103.0802563330388

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

Dataset: test