PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "068000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine includes an electric generator, a lock up clutch, a throttle valve, an electric generator control unit, a clutch control unit, and a throttle control unit. The clutch control unit is configured to control the lock up clutch to an engaged state on the condition that the electric generator performs the regenerative power-generation. The throttle control unit is configured to control the throttle valve openwise on the condition that the electric generator performs the regenerative power-generation. The throttle control unit is configured to control the throttle valve from openwise to closewise on the condition that the lock up clutch is controlled from the engaged state to a disengaged state, with the throttle valve having been controlled openwise in accompaniment with the regenerative power-generation of the electric generator.

Claim (Index 4):
The control apparatus for the vehicle according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the electric generator is a generator motor, and the electric generator control unit controls the generator motor from a regenerative power-generation state to a powering state, on the condition that the lock up clutch is controlled from the engaged state to the disengaged state, with the throttle valve having been controlled openwise in accompaniment with the regenerative power-generation of the generator motor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.31818
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11316911', '12729513', '10395105', '11199789', '10760837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4872919159907753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844557513349768
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4870082995251955
- Mean Citation Score: 233.265388
- Max Citation Score: 241.93079
- Similarity Product: 195.0089051306033

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

Dataset: test