PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["177", "136000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to detect and/or classify a vehicle occupant, such as a passenger seated within the cockpit of a vehicle. An occupant classification system includes an occupant weight sensor, an occupant presence sensor, and a logic device configured to communicate with the occupant sensors. The occupant weight sensor includes at least first and second conductive electrodes separated by a dielectric layer, top and bottom protective plastic layers configured to support the respective first and second conductive electrodes, and adhesive layers disposed between the plastic layers and the conductive electrodes and between the conductive electrodes and the dielectric layer. The top protective plastic layer is longer and/or wider than the first conductive electrode and the bottom protective plastic layer is longer and/or wider than the second conductive electrode to provide edge protection against electrical shorts for the first and second conductive electrodes.

Claim (Index 14):
A system comprising the occupant weight sensor of  claim 1 , the system further comprising:\n an occupant presence sensor configured to provide occupant presence sensor signals associated with the passenger seat; and a logic device coupled within the vehicle and configured to communicate with the occupant weight sensor and the occupant presence sensor, wherein the logic device is configured to:\n receive the occupant weight sensor signals from the occupant weight sensor and the occupant presence sensor signals from the occupant presence sensor; \n determine an estimated occupant weight and an occupant presence response based, at least in part, on the occupant weight sensor signals and the occupant presence sensor signals; and \n determine an occupant classification status corresponding to the passenger seat based, at least in part, on the estimated occupant weight and/or the occupant presence response.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 177.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16072475', '11266091', '11475107', '11948730', '12169431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5896866239006753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876925802148453
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5794872195320924
- Mean Citation Score: 205.568734
- Max Citation Score: 211.15443
- Similarity Product: 144.34712093685866

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

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