PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16252322
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["244", "07600A"]

Abstract:
A control augmentation system for high aspect ratio aircraft has aileron/flaperon and throttle position sensors; spoiler and flap controls; a mode switch with manual, and landing modes; and a controller driving left and right spoiler and flap servos, the controller including at least one processor with memory containing firmware configured to: when the mode switch is in manual mode, drive both spoiler servos to a symmetrical position according to the spoiler control; when the mode switch is in landing mode, drive the left spoiler to a position dependent on aileron and throttle position, and the right spoiler to a position dependent on aileron and throttle position, the left and right spoiler positions differing whenever ailerons are not centered, and an average of spoiler positions is more fully deployed when the throttle position is at a low-power setting than when the throttle position is at a high-power setting.

Claim (Index 11):
A control augmentation system adapted for use in high aspect ratio aircraft comprising:\n left spoiler, right spoiler, and flap or flaperon, servo drivers; aileron and throttle position sensors; a spoiler control input and a flap control input; a mode switch having at least an auto-takeoff mode; a controller coupled to control the spoiler and flap servo drivers, the controller coupled to the aileron and throttle position sensors and the mode switch, and comprising at least one processor having a memory, the memory containing firmware comprising machine readable instructions configured to: read the mode switch; when the mode switch is in the auto-takeoff mode: if the flap control is set to a particular predetermined position, configure the flap servo driver to position flaps at a minimum-lift position so long as a squat switch detects ground contact and airspeed remains below a minimum takeoff airspeed threshold, then upon the squat switch detecting an absence of ground contact and airspeed above the minimum takeoff airspeed, configure the flap servo driver to position the flaps at a low-drag, high-lift, configuration; and if the flap control is set to any other position, configuring the flap servo driver to position the flaps at a configuration determined by the flap control; and monitor throttle position, and if the throttle is positioned at idle, a Lift Dump switch is activated, and the squat switch detects ground contact, using the flap servo driver to position flaps at a minimum lift setting and using the spoiler drivers to deploy spoilers to a minimum lift position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 244.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14677512', '11763754', '14035048', '10288902', '15835016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8311473312255133
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6152312944800471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8095557275509667
- Mean Citation Score: 336.354466
- Max Citation Score: 651.95917
- Similarity Product: 490.5861392599875

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

Dataset: test