PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749035
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["280", "086750"]

Abstract:
The invention makes it easy to link wheel alignment inspections to improving stability when traveling and to suppressing uneven tire wear. The straight running state of a vehicle is verified (S 1 ), and the vehicle is placed on a tester in the straight running state (S 2 ). The wheel alignment of the vehicle in the straight running state is measured using the tester (S 3 ). The individual toe of each front wheel and each rear wheel is adjusted to eliminate differences between the left and right wheels (S 4 ). The wheel alignment, such as the included angle, is measured again, and the causes of any wheel alignment failures are narrowed down on the basis of the measurement results (S 5  to S 7 ). Wheel alignment failures impacting steering pull or uneven tire wear are evaluated on the basis of the results of the measurements in S 3  (S 8 ).

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the second alignment measurement step includes a step of measuring a first turning angle of a right front wheel, while a left front wheel is rotated in a first direction which is one of left and right direction so that a turning angle of the left front wheel is a first angle which is smaller than an angle corresponding to full-lock, and a step of measuring a second turning angle of the left front wheel, while the right front wheel is rotated in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction so that a turning angle of the right front wheel is the first angle; and\n wherein, in the second evaluation step, a cause of a defect in the wheel alignment is evaluated, based at least on the first turning angle and the second turning angle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16456
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11245836', '12404883', '15085490', '12671070', '10902138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8118583892953211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046299350610888
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7811355438718978
- Mean Citation Score: 225.738576
- Max Citation Score: 233.95349
- Similarity Product: 161.50933073114274

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test