PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "003000"]

Abstract:
An autothrottle system for an aircraft includes a motor, actuator assembly, and position sensor operatively connected between the motor and a moving portion of the actuator assembly. An electronic controller is configured to control the motor to move the actuator assembly to actuator positions based at least on position information from the position sensor to move the throttle lever to lever positions. When a surge condition is detected the autothrottle increases the throttle lever in a regulated manner for optimal performance over the different regions of an engine power output.

Claim (Index 1):
An autothrottle system for an aircraft, comprising:\n a motor configured to impart rotational movement to a shaft extending from the motor, the motor being mounted on a support; an actuator assembly operatively connected to the shaft and to an attachment end of a throttle lever, the throttle lever having a control end, opposite to the attachment end, for application of manual force; a position sensor operatively connected between the motor and a moving portion of the actuator assembly; and an electronic controller configured to control the motor so that the motor moves the actuator assembly to determined actuator positions based at least in part on position information received from the position sensor to cause movement of the throttle lever, wherein the actuator assembly comprises:\n a bearing assembly having a plurality of bearings configured to contact a surface of the shaft for converting rotational movement of the shaft into linear motion of the bearing assembly along the shaft; and \n a shuttle arm having a mounting surface at a first end configured to attach to the bearing assembly and at least one linkage arm at a second end of the shuttle arm which is operatively coupled to the attachment end of the lever, \n wherein when a condition exists such that an actual engine performance differs from a preferred engine performance the autothrottle increases or decreases the throttle lever in a regulated manner for optimal performance over different regions of an engine's power output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15554642', '15446262', '15066929', '15796001', '15137891']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4353543664549564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335989105848099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4451788208679417
- Mean Citation Score: 240.99141
- Max Citation Score: 382.34872
- Similarity Product: 377.244862170496

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

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