PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16122415
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["123", "19800F"]

Abstract:
A preparation control for suppressing fluctuation of an output torque of the engine at the time of executing switching operation from the whole cylinder operation to the partial cylinder operation is executed when having made a switching request from the whole cylinder operation to the partial cylinder operation, the valve operation phase is fixed to a predetermined phase before executing the switching operation, and the cylinder deactivation mechanism is controlled so as to execute the switching operation at a target switching time which is prefixed by corresponding to the predetermined phase. The target switching time is previously set to a timing at which abnormal noises are not generated, by corresponding to the valve operation phase fixed to the predetermined phase.

Claim (Index 3):
The control method of the internal combustion engine according to  claim 1 , wherein, in the step (c), an output time of the switching command signal is adjusted in accordance with an operation delay time of the cylinder deactivation mechanism such that the switching operation is executed at the target switching time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19298
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16024914', '15204998', '12639389', '13883584', '15204997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7670952817966784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896585268893108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7393516063059417
- Mean Citation Score: 241.12516
- Max Citation Score: 269.78888
- Similarity Product: 212.1763728608036

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

Dataset: test