PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16366440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["705", "003000"]

Abstract:
An on-board vehicle occupant weighing technology includes a simplified vehicle occupant weighing apparatus based on the discovered horwest effect and weighing moderator. The simplified weighing apparatus utilizes a weighing unit connected to the car seat of the vehicle occupant and a further weighing moderator, which provides convenient weighing of the foot part of the occupant's body by the same weighing unit that is connected to the car seat. The technology employs several methods of the weight measurements provided by different moderator approaches. The technology, methods, and simplified weighing apparatus are employed in on-board vehicle overweight and obesity preventing system wherein a weight trend analyzer provides predicting possibility of the occupant's overweight or obesity in a short predetermined period of time and automatically warning a vehicle occupant and a health care provider of the condition. The technology may also provide an accurate and convenient occupant's weight measurement in the vehicle safety devices such as seat belt and air bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS system) to improve the Occupant Classification System to prevent possible extra force applied to the occupant's body in case of collision.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of weighing a person sitting in a seat of an on-board vehicle comprising:\n applying a force in a horizontal direction of a predetermined value with respect to a substantially vertical surface of another object that is a predetermined distance away from a weighing unit operatively coupled to the seat of the vehicle, wherein the application of the horizontal force does not change a weight measurement of the object recorded by the weighing unit when the object is applying the force to the vertical surface wherein the horwest effect is defined by a rule that states that an object located on the weighing unit in a closed on-board vehicle overweight and obesity preventing system and providing and applying a force in a horizontal direction of a predetermined value with respect to a substantially vertical surface of another object that is a predetermined distance away from the weighing unit, does not change a weight measurement of the object recorded by the weighing unit when the object is applying the force to the substantially vertical surface wherein said horwest effect provides an accurate weight measurement of an occupant sitting on the seat, to which the weighing unit is operatively attached, by compressing in a horizontal direction a piece that is hanging from a substantially vertical part of the vehicle and secures the foot of the occupant while being compressed by the foot of the occupant in a horizontal direction or compressing in a horizontal frontal direction at least one of the switches, located above the waist of the occupant on a substantially vertical part of the vehicle and conveniently lifting feet above the floor and keeping them up during the weight measurement, and neither of these compressing does not influence the accurate weight measurement of the occupant's whole body measured by said weighing unit at the time when a switch connected to said substantially vertical part of the vehicle signals to a computing and control unit about any said compression and the current result of the weight measurement is correct.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15430219', '14282715', '12315003', '10923535', '15787576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1312444048841008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527977307010856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1709176950967763
- Mean Citation Score: 345.79920400000015
- Max Citation Score: 423.0292
- Similarity Product: 390.314665448451

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

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