PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "051000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a vehicle transmission includes electrically connecting a Transmission or Powertrain Control Unit (TCU or PCU) to the vehicle transmission, the TCU or PCU controlling operation of the transmission and having switchable power on a high side, and switchable ground on a low side of a plurality of solenoids in a shared functional grouping configuration, proportionally controlling an amount of current through a load such as a solenoid via controlling an amount of time current is being sunk through the solenoid to ground and controlling an amount of time current is provided via an adaptable recirculation path in the TCU or PCU, the recirculation path minimizing current decay when the solenoid is driven in an OFF state. The TCU or PCU having a single hardware layout, but being electronically adaptable to control a plurality of transmission types and solenoid architectures based on any desired functional solenoid grouping.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 7  wherein proportionally controlling an amount of current further comprises selectively initiating current flow through one of a plurality of current recirculation paths back to a desired HSD based upon a defined solenoid grouping and power distribution.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06494
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13706400', '15199141', '11857899', '14847456', '11516322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.41057513933429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5083616121685771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4203537866177187
- Mean Citation Score: 188.678012
- Max Citation Score: 193.21178
- Similarity Product: 109.21146907816888

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

Dataset: test