PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914580
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["123", "090160"]

Abstract:
Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with a cam switching device including a cam groove provided on the outer peripheral surface of a camshaft and an electromagnetic solenoid type actuator capable of protruding, toward the camshaft, an engagement pin that is engageable with the cam groove. The control device is configured, in causing the cam switching device to perform a cam switching operation, to perform energization of the actuator such that the engagement pin is seated on a forward outer peripheral surface, and to more lower, when an electric current (coil current) flowing through the actuator as a result of the energization is greater, an average electric voltage per unit time applied to the actuator in protruding the engagement pin toward the cam groove from the forward outer peripheral surface.

Claim (Index 2):
The control device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the control device is configured, if a time required from a start of a protruding operation of the engagement pin toward an inside of the cam groove until a completion thereof is longer than a certain time in causing the cam switching device to perform the cam switching operation with the energization for seating the engagement pin on the forward outer peripheral surface, to retract the engagement pin from the forward outer peripheral surface after the engagement pin is seated on the forward outer peripheral surface, and to perform energization of the actuator such that the engagement pin is protruded in the cam groove during a combustion cycle that is the same as a combustion cycle in which the engagement pin has been seated on the forward outer peripheral surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11594
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15864656', '12676830', '15888563', '12677447', '13389540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7607395454816019
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5103687138230062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7357024623157424
- Mean Citation Score: 238.417858
- Max Citation Score: 321.5391
- Similarity Product: 228.14660010353924

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

Dataset: test