PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928356
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "030300"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for conducting a fuel tank pressure transducer rationality test diagnostic procedure in vehicles with sealed fuel tanks. In one example, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure-to-vehicle (V2I2V) technology may be utilized to obtain fuel tank pressure transducer data from a select crowd of vehicles, where the select crowd may be based on the vehicles in the select crowd experiencing similar ambient temperature and weather as the vehicle being diagnosed. In this way, FTPT data from vehicles in the select crowd may be compared to FTPT data in the vehicle being diagnosed, in order to indicate whether the FTPT in the vehicle being diagnosed is functioning as desired, where such a diagnostic can be performed without unsealing the fuel tank on either the vehicle being diagnosed or the vehicles in the select crowd, and which may thus reduce undesired evaporative emissions.

Claim (Index 19):
The system of  claim 18 , wherein the sensor comprises a fuel tank pressure transducer for monitoring pressure in a fuel tank of the vehicle that is sealed except for refueling events or other diagnostic routines;\n wherein the controller stores further instructions to exclude vehicles from the subset of vehicles responsive to one or more of an absence of a sealed fuel tank, fuel level outside of a threshold fuel level, a key-on condition, a key-off condition for less than a predetermined threshold key-of duration, fuel tank temperature outside of a threshold fuel tank temperature, and temperature/humidity and weather conditions different than that of the vehicle; and wherein the controller stores further instructions to indicate the fuel tank pressure transducer is functioning as desired in response to data from the retrieved one or more data sets being correlated with data from the fuel tank pressure transducer, provided an average direction and magnitude of change for the one or more data sets is greater than a threshold change over a predetermined time frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97468
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15168605', '15844949', '14819181', '14968461', '15670665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4872764062815348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5566572740663661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4942144930600179
- Mean Citation Score: 293.9346680000001
- Max Citation Score: 447.815
- Similarity Product: 360.4682566678524

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test