PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16063153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "037000"]

Abstract:
A control unit ( 18 ) for an active suspension system ( 14 ) of a vehicle ( 10 ) having one or more wheels ( 22 ), the control unit ( 18 ) comprising: at least one input for receiving a signal comprising data related to the topography of terrain in a driving direction of the vehicle ( 10 ); at least one output for outputting a control signal for controlling one or more suspension system actuators ( 34 ) associated with each respective wheel ( 22 ) of said one or more wheels ( 22 ); and a processing module arranged to: analyse received data to identify a surface feature ( 12 ); determine, in dependence on a current vehicle state, a desired wheel displacement relative to a body of the vehicle for each of said one or more wheels ( 22 ) when each wheel ( 22 ) negotiates the surface feature ( 12 ); determine a control signal for said one or more suspension system actuators ( 34 ) in dependence on each respective desired wheel displacement, wherein the control signal defines future adjustments to operation of the or each suspension system actuator ( 34 ) that are scheduled to coincide with a time period for which one or more wheels ( 22 ) of the vehicle ( 10 ) negotiates the surface feature ( 12 ); and output the said control signal.

Claim (Index 29):
A control unit for an active suspension system of a vehicle having multiple wheels, the control unit comprising:\n at least one input for receiving a signal comprising data related to the topography of terrain in a driving direction of the vehicle; at least one output for outputting a control signal for controlling a respective one or more suspension system actuators associated with each wheel of said multiple wheels; and a processing module arranged to:\n analyze received data to identify a surface feature; \n determine, in dependence on a current vehicle state, a desired wheel displacement relative to a body of the vehicle for each wheel of the vehicle as any wheel of the vehicle negotiates the surface feature; \n determine a control signal for said one or more suspension system actuators of each wheel in dependence on each respective desired wheel displacement, wherein the control signal defines respective force profiles defining magnitudes of forces to be exerted by each suspension system actuator at its respective wheel, the force profiles being scheduled to coincide with a time period for which one or more wheels of the vehicle negotiates the surface feature; and \n output the said control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.89535
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11936137', '14553919', '12280292', '15595269', '11348769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4365803700349652
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4661912715708808
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4395414601885568
- Mean Citation Score: 190.992928
- Max Citation Score: 196.1423
- Similarity Product: 158.6791704568625

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