PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["180", "065310"]

Abstract:
Downhill charge sustain battery protection strategy is disclosed. For one example, a vehicle is powered by an electric motor and battery. The vehicle includes a vehicle control unit (VCU) to control friction braking and regenerative braking for the vehicle. For one example, the VCU is configured to implement a method comprising detecting a condition to switch back and forth between regenerative braking and friction braking. For one example, the detected condition is a charge sustain event such as, for example, the vehicle being at a top of a hill or going down a hill in a lift condition (no pedals pressed) and the battery is fully charged at maximum state of charge (SOC) or voltage limit.

Claim (Index 6):
A vehicle comprising:\n a braking system to provide friction braking for the vehicle; a powertrain system to control an electric motor powered by a rechargeable battery for the vehicle and to invert the electric motor in providing regenerative braking; and a vehicle control unit (VCU) coupled to the braking system and powertrain system and configured to\n detect a condition to control the braking system and powertrain system to switch between regenerative braking and friction braking, and \n control the braking system and powertrain system to switch between regenerative braking while the condition is detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14053692', '15485845', '10932132', '13456676', '15409104']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7469990965758673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920921520199905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7215084021202797
- Mean Citation Score: 246.88197
- Max Citation Score: 254.03746
- Similarity Product: 214.47361479785084

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