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 4):
The control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the mechanically operated transmission mechanism is a step-variable automatic transmission which is shifted to a selected one of a plurality of speed positions with an engaging action of a selected one of a plurality of coupling devices.

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): 0.5105171867031146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021908448255945
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5096845525153626
- Mean Citation Score: 292.23824
- Max Citation Score: 299.46738
- Similarity Product: 250.74796496740225

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