PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "062000"]

Abstract:
When a malfunction occurs in an A-CPU among multiple CPUs, a retracting traveling control is performed to control a vehicle driving force with a CPU other than the A-CPU. During the retracting traveling control, a shift position is determined with a CPU other than the A-CPU according to an output signal of a shift sensor, and a reduction determination is performed to reduce a shift position, which is to be determined, to be less than a normal state. In this way, the shift position is determined and the retracting traveling is performed even during the retracting traveling control.

Claim (Index 5):
A vehicle control device equipped with a shift sensor, which is to send a plurality of signals according to a shift position being a manipulated position of a vehicle shift lever, the vehicle control device comprising:\n a drive control unit including a plurality of control circuits relevant to a control of a driving force of a vehicle and to determine the shift position according to an output signal of the shift sensor, wherein the drive control unit includes: a retracting traveling control unit to perform a retracting traveling control, when a malfunction occurs in one control circuit among the plurality of control circuits, to control the driving force of the vehicle with an other control circuit other than the control circuit in which a malfunction occurs; and a determination control unit\n to perform a reduction determination during the retracting traveling control to determine the shift position according to the output signal of the shift sensor with the other control circuit and \n to reduce the shift position, which is to be determined, compared with a normal state, \n the determination control unit is, when performing the reduction determination during the retracting traveling control, to limit the shift position, which is to be determined, within a forward range, a reverse range, and a neutral range, the drive control unit includes three control circuits as the plurality of control circuits and is connected with the shift sensor, one control circuit among the three control circuits is a control circuit for malfunction-state determination, and the drive control unit is\n to cause two control circuits, which are other than the control circuit for malfunction-state determination, among the three control circuits to receive all signal corresponding to each shift position of the shift sensor and \n to cause the control circuit for malfunction-state determination to receive a signal corresponding to the forward range and a signal corresponding to the reverse range of the shift sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18367
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15794777', '15639751', '13255835', '15481847', '15500722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3709100867722941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724547150255317
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3810645495976179
- Mean Citation Score: 154.255876
- Max Citation Score: 163.71123
- Similarity Product: 122.18808998819948

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