PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958507
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
In a steering assistance apparatus mounted in a vehicle, a steering input device and a turning device differentiate at a transmission ratio that is a ratio of an amount of change in the turning angle to an amount of change in the steering angle. A turning device actuator actuates the turning device. A controller executes an automatic steering mode, in which the controller determines the turning angle based on at least one of a travel condition and travel path information of the vehicle and controls the turning device actuator so as to achieve the determined turning angle. If detecting an input variation from the steering input device during execution of the automatic steering mode, the controller changes the transmission ratio to a value less than the transmission ratio in the automatic steering mode and prioritizes a manual steering mode over the automatic steering mode.

Claim (Index 10):
A steering assistance control method for a vehicle, the vehicle being provided with a steering input device and a turning device configured to have therebetween a transmission ratio that is a ratio of an amount of change in the turning angle to an amount of change in the steering angle, the method comprising:\n executing an automatic steering mode, in which the turning angle is determined based on at least one of a travel condition and travel path information of the vehicle and a turning device actuator is controlled so as to provide the determined turning angle; changing the transmission ratio to a value less than the transmission ratio in the automatic steering mode if an input variation from the steering input device is detected during execution of the automatic steering mode, and prioritizing a manual steering mode, in which the turning device is actuated responsive to a steering angle input from the steering input device, over the automatic steering mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43548
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15740076', '16307809', '11758429', '10520628', '14779180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4433538117726691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4681027127764259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4458287018730448
- Mean Citation Score: 208.373724
- Max Citation Score: 216.91438
- Similarity Product: 185.05290317629093

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