PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16248992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["702", "148000"]

Abstract:
Method of determining the footprint of a tire on the ground, using devices already installed in standard production tires. Since the frequency of the transmitter clock present in a wheel unit is perturbed by mechanical vibrations when the tire contacts the ground, the frequency variations of the reference clock are representative of the value of the footprint. The method therefore includes determining the footprint on the ground of a tire of a wheel by measuring continuously, as a function of time, a signal representative of the variations in frequency of the reference clock supplied at the output of the time control device; determining a time interval during which the frequency variations of the reference clock occur; and, on the basis of the rotation speed of the tire, deducing therefrom an angular range of contact (Θ) corresponding to the footprint between the ends representing the ground contact length of the tire.

Claim (Index 4):
The footprint determination method as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein the locking state information signal (S) is supplied at the output of the phase lock detector ( 32 ) in the form of pseudo-digital values ( 60 ), and wherein a decision threshold (\u0394S) is defined such that the values of said information signal (S) at the output of said detector ( 32 ) are considered to have a value of \u201cone\u201d above the threshold (\u0394S) and a value of \u201czero\u201d below the threshold (\u0394S), a period of time for which the signal (S) supplied by this detector ( 32 ) remains equal to \u201cone\u201d then corresponding to the time interval (T \u0394L ) for which the wheel unit ( 4 ) is in the footprint (\u0394L).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15101086', '14968663', '10886219', '12370916', '15127178']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2125642657925514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.540085846866635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2453164238999598
- Mean Citation Score: 215.966812
- Max Citation Score: 408.80298
- Similarity Product: 233.8632151833021

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

Dataset: test