PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["180", "008100"]

Abstract:
An adaptable wheel has a central hub, radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment having a linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment; a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and a locking mechanism for selectively preventing linear motion of the linear actuator. A control system for an adaptable wheel includes a distance sensor on a vehicle for determining distance to a surface in the path of the vehicle and a computer for receiving distance information from the distance sensor and, responsive to the distance information, determine a desired length of a segment of an adaptable wheel for maintaining a hub of a wheel level, and provide control signals to a linear actuator of the segment.

Claim (Index 10):
A vehicle wheel system, comprising:\n a plurality of segmented wheels, each wheel comprising a hub and a plurality of radial segments connected to and extending outward from the hub, wherein each radial segment has a linear actuator having a fixed portion and a spoke movable with respect to the fixed portion and configured to change a segment radial length responsive to a first control signal; and a computer processor configured to:\n calculate a target diameter for the segmented wheel based on a present travel condition of the wheel; \n calculate a length of each of the plurality of radial segments corresponding to the target diameter; \n transmit a length signal from the computer processor for adjusting the plurality of the radial segments to the calculated length; and \n repeat the processing steps of calculating a target diameter, calculating a length and transmitting a length signal for adjusting the plurality of the radial segments to the calculated length, when the computer processor determines that a travel condition of the wheels has changed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214109', '13573080', '14545914', '15469542', '13969290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7480105785901355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5086618899841291
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7240757097295348
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85081
- Max Citation Score: 299.12848
- Similarity Product: 225.7700413263893

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