PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "101000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus includes a first controller configured to generate control signals for controlling an engine or other machine, a second controller configured to generate the control signals for controlling the machine, a transfer circuit, and an arbiter circuit. The transfer circuit is coupled between the machine and the controllers, and is configured to switch from a first state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the first controller to the machine, to a second state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the second controller to the machine, responsive to receiving a first failure signal from the first controller. The arbiter circuit includes three (or more) arbiters, and is configured to control the transfer circuit from the first state to the second state responsive to any two of the three arbiters generating second signals indicative of failure of the first controller.

Claim (Index 16):
The apparatus of  claim 13 , wherein the transfer relay includes plural semiconductor switches operable by one or more gate drive units that are configured to be energized by the transfer unit, wherein the plural semiconductor switches of the transfer relay include a first plurality of the semiconductor switches connected to, while energized, deliver the engine commands from the main controller to the engine, a plurality of connections for delivering the engine commands from the standby controller to the engine, and a second plurality of the semiconductor switches configured to, while energized, divert from the plurality of connections the engine commands from the standby controller, wherein the transfer unit is connected to energize and to de-energize together both the first and second pluralities of semiconductor switches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10328462', '10328618', '15891147', '14216627', '14688209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4267747333795083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.500931861084401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4341904461499976
- Mean Citation Score: 140.09558599999997
- Max Citation Score: 148.5781
- Similarity Product: 78.2440972679019

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