PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997220
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "022000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus for a vehicle provided with a motor/generator functioning as a drive power source, and a mechanically operated transmission mechanism which constitutes a part of a power transmitting path between the motor/generator and drive wheels, the control apparatus including a motor/generator control portion configured to implement a regenerative torque control of the motor/generator so as to generate a regenerative torque according to a braking operation by an operator of the vehicle in a decelerating run of the vehicle, and a transmission shifting control portion configured to initiate a shift-down action of the mechanically operated transmission mechanism after a rate of change of the regenerative torque has been held within a predetermined range for at least a predetermined length of time, where a determination to implement the shift-down action is made in the process of the regenerative torque control of the motor/generator according to the braking operation.

Claim (Index 3):
The control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the regenerative torque of the motor/generator is a required value of the regenerative torque which increases with an increase of an amount of the braking operation by the operator of the vehicle, and the rate of change of the regenerative torque is a rate of change of the required value of the regenerative torque.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18571
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15846888', '15841623', '15846862', '12227821', '15374050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5109398405139889
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4993712081284362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5097829772754336
- Mean Citation Score: 292.23824
- Max Citation Score: 299.46738
- Similarity Product: 265.7510036503243

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