PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "003000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of increasing the control authority of redundant stability and control augmentation system (SCAS) actuators by utilizing feedback between systems such that one system may compensate for the position of a failed actuator of the other system. Each system uses an appropriate combination of reliable and unreliable inputs such that unreliable inputs cannot inappropriately utilize the increased authority. Each system may reconfigure itself when the other system actuator fails at certain positions so that the pilot or other upstream input maintains sufficient control authority of the aircraft.

Claim (Index 2):
A rotary aircraft having a rotary system carried by a fuselage, the rotary system comprising:\n a first flight control computer carried by the fuselage, the first flight control computer having;\n a first processor for commanding the first actuator along a first axis; and \n a second processor for commanding the first actuator along the first axis; \n a second flight control computer carried by the fuselage; a first actuator commanded by the first flight control computer for manipulating the rotary system along the first axis; a second actuator commanded by the second flight control computer for manipulating the rotary system along the first axis; and a third actuator for manipulating the rotary system along the first axis; wherein the first actuator compares commands from the first processor of the first flight control computer to commands from the second processor of the first flight control computer to find a failure in the first actuator; and wherein an output of the first actuator is summed with an output of the second actuator and summed with a control input for manipulating the rotary system with full authority in only the first axis by controlling the third actuator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57377
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14284045', '15646894', '13915147', '12594533', '13743076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4000191580460823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4639441383068248
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4064116560721565
- Mean Citation Score: 139.87184299999998
- Max Citation Score: 237.32454
- Similarity Product: 233.39015520049816

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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