PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907460
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle, which includes an engine and a motor configured to start the engine. The vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a first controller programmed to perform a departure prevention control, which is to prevent the vehicle from departing from a driving lane, when the vehicle is about to depart from the driving lane; and a second controller programmed to perform an automatic stop control, which is to automatically stop the engine on condition that a predetermined stop condition is satisfied, and which is to operate the motor and to restart the engine on condition that a predetermined start condition is satisfied after the engine is automatically stopped. The first controller is programmed to prohibit a start of an automatic stop of the engine by the automatic stop control, when the vehicle is about to depart from the driving lane.

Claim (Index 3):
The vehicle control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n said first controller is programmed to perform, as a part of the departure prevention control, (i) a first determination in which a first departure amount of the vehicle from the driving lane is estimated and in which it is determined whether or not the estimated first departure amount is greater than a first threshold value, and (ii) a second determination in which a second departure amount of the vehicle from the driving lane is estimated at a different time from an estimation time of the first departure amount and in which it is determined whether or not the estimated second departure amount is greater than a second threshold value, which is greater than the first threshold value, and said first controller is programmed (i) to control the motor to restart the engine on condition that the engine is automatically stopped by the automatic stop control, if it is determined in the first determination that the first departure amount is greater than the first threshold value, and (ii) to prohibit the start of the automatic stop of the engine by the automatic stop control, if it is determined in the second determination that the second departure amount is greater than the second threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92593
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15739668', '15864110', '15671302', '15647768', '10883782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4758054749563767
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815261270611077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4763775401668498
- Mean Citation Score: 218.13779600000004
- Max Citation Score: 229.42267
- Similarity Product: 182.421015001154

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