PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137688
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "960000"]

Abstract:
A system for monitoring steering of an aircraft landing gear wheel includes: a controller; a warning device for emitting warning signals for a tractor operator maneuvering the aircraft on the ground; and at least one angular sensor. The controller compares effective steering angle information, supplied by the angular sensor(s), with angles αSD, αMD, αSG and αMG, where αMD and αMG are limits of a predefined steering angle range within which the landing gear wheel steering is to remain confined, and where αSD and αSG are intermediate angles within the range. The controller commands emission of a warning signal when the comparison indicates that the steering of the landing gear wheel is between angles αSD and αMD or between angles αSG and αMG; and modulates the warning signal depending on the effective position of the steering between the angles αSD and αMD or between the angles αSG and αMG.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for monitoring steering of a wheel of a landing gear, said monitoring system configured to be used in an aircraft equipped with said landing gear wheel, said monitoring system including:\n a controller; a warning device configured to emit, on a command of said controller, warning signals directed to an operator of a tractor maneuvering the aircraft on the ground; and at least one angular sensor configured to supply the controller with effective steering angle measurement information for said landing gear wheel, wherein the controller implements: means for undertaking a comparison of the effective steering angle information with angles \u03b1SD, \u03b1MD, \u03b1SG and \u03b1MG, where \u03b1MD and \u03b1MG are a maximum right-hand angle and a maximum left-hand angle, respectively, which correspond to limits of a predefined steering angle range within which a steering of the landing gear wheel is to remain confined, and where \u03b1SD and \u03b1SG are an intermediate right-hand angle and an intermediate left-hand angle, respectively, within said predefined steering angle range; means for commanding emission, by the warning device, of a warning signal when the comparison indicates that an effective position of the steering of the landing gear wheel is situated between angles \u03b1SD and \u03b1MD or between angles \u03b1SG and \u03b1MG; and means for modulating the warning signal depending on the effective position of the steering between the angles \u03b1SD and \u03b1MD or between the angles \u03b1SG and \u03b1MG, and wherein the warning device is a speaker configured to allow the operator of the tractor to be contacted by an intercom system from a cockpit of the aircraft, said monitoring system including means for mixing the warning signal with voice signals coming from the intercom system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21622
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14042469', '11965413', '12280356', '11159472', '14580474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7207411940047411
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920307367849931
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6978701482827663
- Mean Citation Score: 199.924666
- Max Citation Score: 211.42458
- Similarity Product: 165.567384412204

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

Dataset: test