PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "101000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus includes a first controller configured to generate control signals for controlling an engine or other machine, a second controller configured to generate the control signals for controlling the machine, a transfer circuit, and an arbiter circuit. The transfer circuit is coupled between the machine and the controllers, and is configured to switch from a first state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the first controller to the machine, to a second state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the second controller to the machine, responsive to receiving a first failure signal from the first controller. The arbiter circuit includes three (or more) arbiters, and is configured to control the transfer circuit from the first state to the second state responsive to any two of the three arbiters generating second signals indicative of failure of the first controller.

Claim (Index 8):
A control apparatus comprising:\n a transfer relay that is configured, in a default condition, to pass engine commands from a standby controller to an engine, and that is configured, in a run condition, to pass the engine commands from a main controller to the engine; and a transfer unit that is configured, in a run condition, to set the transfer relay to the run condition of the transfer relay, and that is configured, in a startup condition, to set the transfer relay to the default condition of the transfer relay; wherein the transfer unit is configured to transition from the run condition of the transfer unit to the startup condition of the transfer unit responsive to receiving a first main controller failure indication from the main controller and responsive to receiving second main controller failure indications from any two of three arbiters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10328462', '10328618', '15891147', '14216627', '14688209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3959881791712826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5063822635931274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4070275876134671
- Mean Citation Score: 140.09558599999997
- Max Citation Score: 148.5781
- Similarity Product: 71.60877614465655

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