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 9):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising capturing and storing vapors from a fuel tank of the vehicle in a fuel vapor canister selectively coupled to the fuel tank, where the sensor includes a fuel tank pressure transducer for monitoring pressure in the fuel tank of the vehicle and where the set of data from the plurality of vehicles includes pressure indications in fuel tanks corresponding to the plurality of vehicles, where the one or more conditions related to the sensor includes one or more of at least presence of a sealed fuel tank, a fuel level within a threshold of fuel level in the vehicle, and/or a time since key-off greater than a threshold key-off duration; and\n wherein conducting the diagnostic does not include coupling the fuel tank to the fuel vapor canister and wherein the fuel tanks corresponding to the plurality of vehicles are sealed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97468
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15168605', '15844949', '14819181', '14968461', '15670665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4580525721517776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.553581252075514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4676054401441513
- Mean Citation Score: 293.9346680000001
- Max Citation Score: 447.815
- Similarity Product: 354.2715826106072

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

Dataset: test