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 6):
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,\n to determine the shift position with two or more of the other control circuits, \n to compare determination results of the shift position to determine presence or absence of a malfunction, and \n to determine that the shift position is in a neutral range when determining that a malfunction occurs, and \n the determination control unit is, in a case where the malfunctioning control circuit cannot be identified during the retracting traveling control and when determination results of two control circuits among the multiple control circuits simultaneously changes to same position on an operation of the shift lever by a driver, to determine that the two control circuits are normal and to determine that the remaining control circuit is malfunctioning.

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