PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198394
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "071400"]

Abstract:
A virtual engine sound system for a vehicle includes: a speaker mounted on an intake system, and generating an anti-noise sound with inverted phase to an engine noise of an internal combustion engine or a virtual sound; and a valve which is movable between an open position in which an outlet of an air cleaner is opened and a closed position in which the outlet of the air cleaner is closed. The speaker is controlled by an ECU, and the valve is controlled by a valve controller. The ECU controls the speaker to generate the anti-noise sound in an operating condition in which the internal combustion engine is operating, and controls the speaker to generate the virtual sound in an operating condition in which the internal combustion engine is not operating.

Claim (Index 4):
The virtual engine sound system according to  claim 2 , wherein the speaker is mounted to face an inside of the upstream side intake conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57407
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14394537', '16197420', '10578317', '13883614', '15227225']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7340550673083389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866826165472476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7093178222322298
- Mean Citation Score: 200.557854
- Max Citation Score: 211.52339
- Similarity Product: 162.4842328686595

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