PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918424
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["060", "286000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for controlling engine start/stop operations based at least in part on considerations relating to the thermal management of an exhaust gas after-treatment system. A control system may monitor and/or predict conditions and/or properties of the after-treatment system, including conditions related to the thermal management of a selective catalytic reduction system and the properties of an exhaust gas stream that has been released from an internal combustion engine and into the after-treatment system. Such conditions may be evaluated in determining whether the thermal management of the after-treatment system is at, or will be in, a condition that may accommodate a start/stop operation of the internal combustion engine with minimal, if any, adverse impact on the thermal management of the after-treatment system. Such an evaluation may, in at least certain situations, provide at least a consideration as to whether to de-activate or activate start/stop operations.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the managed one or more thermal properties comprises one or more regeneration events in the exhaust gas after-treatment system, and wherein the step of determining the status of the managed one or more thermal properties comprises determining a timing for the execution of the one or more regeneration events, and wherein the step of inhibiting the start/stop operation is based at least on the determined timing of the one or more regeneration events.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05195
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12880662', '15317052', '15873972', '15230988', '13063296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7089200250496621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4965175331054865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6876797758552445
- Mean Citation Score: 211.16221400000003
- Max Citation Score: 218.22319
- Similarity Product: 140.06650130759954

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test