PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16436177
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "946000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a rotorcraft includes: tail rotor blades; a tail rotor actuator coupled to the tail rotor blades such that the pitch of the tail rotor blades varies according to a current extension of the tail rotor actuator; pilot flight controls electrically coupled to the tail rotor actuator; and a flight control computer electrically coupled to the tail rotor actuator and the pilot flight controls, the flight control computer configured to: determine the current extension of the tail rotor actuator; determine whether the current extension of the tail rotor actuator is within a margin of a maximum extension of the tail rotor actuator; and indicate a first warning to a pilot in response to the current extension of the tail rotor actuator being within the margin of the maximum extension of the tail rotor actuator.

Claim (Index 8):
A method comprising:\n providing, by a flight control computer (FCC), a commanded position to a tail rotor actuator of a rotorcraft, a current extension of the tail rotor actuator varying according to the commanded position of the tail rotor actuator, tail rotor blades of the rotorcraft being moved when the current extension of the tail rotor actuator varies; determining, by the FCC, whether the commanded position of the tail rotor actuator is within a margin of an extension limit of the tail rotor actuator; and indicating, by the FCC, a first warning to a pilot in response to the commanded position of the tail rotor actuator being within the margin of the extension limit of the tail rotor actuator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.24444
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15708767', '15646894', '15679645', '15484994', '15480152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7319142281082183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6018353878407321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7189063440814697
- Mean Citation Score: 359.194398
- Max Citation Score: 519.4056
- Similarity Product: 460.4340560777665

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