PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the pressure in a device for the pneumatic adjustment of a seat in a transportation means, in particular in a motor vehicle. The device comprises a plurality of cushions ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ) which are able to be filled with air and which are connected via respective valves ( 201, 202, . . . , 205 ) to a common preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ), wherein a pressure sensor ( 4 ) is provided for measuring the pressure (p) in the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) and the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) is coupled to a compressor ( 6 ) for supplying compressed air without a non-return valve being connected therebetween. For the purpose of monitoring the pressure in a respective cushion ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ), a predefined pressure is set in the preliminary pressure volume by way of operation of the compressor ( 6 ) and/or by way of air discharge from the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) via at least one leak, with the valve ( 201, 202, . . . , 205 ) between the respective cushion ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ) and the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) closed, wherein the predefined pressure deviates from a target pressure (p 1,  p 2,  . . . , p 5 ) in the respective cushion ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ) by at most 10% of the target pressure and/or at most 50 hPa. After the setting of the predefined pressure, the valve ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ) between the respective cushion ( 101, 102, . . . , 105 ) and the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) is opened and the pressure in the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) is measured via the pressure sensor ( 4 ). If the measured pressure (p) deviates from the target pressure (p 1,  p 2,  . . . , p 5 ), the measured pressure (p) is set to the target pressure (p 1,  p 2,  . . . , p 5 ) by way of operation of the compressor ( 6 ) and/or by way of air discharge from the preliminary pressure volume ( 3 ) via the at least one leak.

Claim (Index 12):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein, upon an increase in the ambient pressure being established while the transportation means is in motion, the respective cushions are monitored in the order of increasing target pressures, and, for each cushion, the setting of the measured pressure to the target pressure in step c) takes place during the measurement in step b).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.48485
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14385314', '13505076', '15749454', '14019089', '14416432']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3992849437373398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916768247542208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4085241318390279
- Mean Citation Score: 148.135788
- Max Citation Score: 157.13725
- Similarity Product: 99.17086371830104

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

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