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 6):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein:\n the transfer circuit comprises a transfer relay and a parallel network of switches for controlling the transfer relay; the parallel network of switches includes first and second switches connected in series and configured to be respectively controlled by the second failure signals from a first and a second of the at least three arbiters, third and fourth switches connected in series and configured to be respectively controlled by the second failure signals from the second and a third of the at least three arbiters, and fifth and sixth switches connected in series and configured to be respectively controlled by the second failure signals from the first and the third of the at least three arbiters; and responsive to the second failure signals being present at any of both the first and second switches, or both the third and fourth switches, or both the fifth and sixth switches, the parallel network of switches is configured to control the transfer relay for the transfer circuit to be in the second state such that the transfer circuit passes the engine control signals from the second engine controller to the engine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10328462', '10328618', '15891147', '14216627', '14688209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4320301666793472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4809264735945932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4369197973708719
- Mean Citation Score: 140.09558599999997
- Max Citation Score: 148.5781
- Similarity Product: 95.38304280227425

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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