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 19):
The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein the at least one leak comprises at least one of a first leak in the preliminary pressure volume, the size of the first leak is not being controllable, and a second leak produced by opening at least one valve between at least one cushion other than the respective cushion and the preliminary pressure volume.

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): 0.3986930674361678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4939988890850221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4082236496010533
- Mean Citation Score: 148.135788
- Max Citation Score: 157.13725
- Similarity Product: 96.98359605765344

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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