PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["701", "051000"]

Abstract:
An automatic transmission controller is provided, which is capable of reducing occurrence of a shift shock while improving responsiveness of a driving force. An ECU is configured to calculate a target shift time based on an input torque that is input to the automatic transmission when a gear stage is shifted from a current gear stage to a target gear stage spaced two or more stages apart from the current gear stage. The ECU is also configured to: shift the gear stage to an intermediate gear stage between the current gear stage and the target gear stage when the target shift time is not less than a predetermined value; and to shift the gear stage directly to the target gear stage when the target shift time is less than the predetermined value.

Claim (Index 1):
An automatic transmission controller to be applied to an automatic transmission configured to selectively engage a plurality of friction engaging elements and thus to establish multiple gear stages,\n wherein the automatic transmission controller is configured to calculate a target shift time based on an input torque that is input to the automatic transmission when a gear stage is shifted from a current gear stage to a target gear stage spaced two or more stages apart from the current gear stage, wherein the automatic transmission controller is further configured to: shift the gear stage to an intermediate gear stage between the current gear stage and the target gear stage when the target shift time is not less than a predetermined value; and shift the gear stage directly to the target gear stage when the target shift time is less than the predetermined value, wherein, when the gear stage is shifted from the current gear stage to the intermediate gear stage in the automatic transmission, it is permitted to shift the gear stage to another gear stage that is established by release of one friction engaging element and engagement of one friction engaging element, and it is prohibited to shift the gear stage to another gear stage that requires release of two friction engaging elements and engagement of two friction engaging elements, and wherein the intermediate gear stage is set to the gear stage closest to the target gear stage among the gear stages to which the current gear stage is allowed to be shifted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33898
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15651360', '14889557', '15646388', '15648558', '13577304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4738661110111198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4618930829572814
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.472668808205736
- Mean Citation Score: 205.405602
- Max Citation Score: 209.17552
- Similarity Product: 187.634446706276

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