PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192607
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["280", "005507"]

Abstract:
A vehicle of the present disclosure may include at least one pair of opposing wheels coupled to a tiltable central chassis by a four-bar linkage or the like, such that the wheels are configured to tilt in unison with the central chassis. A steering actuator and/or a tilting actuator may be discretely controllable by an electronic controller of the vehicle. The controller may include processing logic configured to maintain alignment between a median plane of the chassis and a net force vector caused by gravity and any induced centrifugal forces. Various control algorithms may be utilized to steer the vehicle along a desired path, either autonomously or semi-autonomously.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle comprising:\n a pair of wheels coupled to a tiltable central frame by a four-bar linkage configured such that the pair of wheels and the central frame are configured to tilt in unison with respect to a median plane of the central frame; a sensor configured to detect directional information regarding a net force vector applied to the central frame, wherein the net force vector is determined by gravity in combination with any applicable centrifugal force applied to the central frame; a first actuator operatively coupled to the central frame and configured to selectively tilt the central frame; a second actuator operatively coupled to the pair of wheels and configured to selectively steer the pair of wheels; and a controller including processing logic configured to selectively control the first actuator and the second actuator in response to the directional information from the sensor to automatically maintain the net force vector in alignment with the median plane of the central frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54054
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13698669', '13520889', '15745891', '10539230', '12298752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8487209859332221
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5149194147127616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.815340828811176
- Mean Citation Score: 218.77727400000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.0566
- Similarity Product: 177.9628747067213

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