PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16373578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "070000"]

Abstract:
An automatic braking system and method are provided for controlling the automatic operation of a pneumatic (air) brake system installed on commercial highway vehicles and the like, particular heavy trucks and buses. When a possible collision is detected or an object is detected in proximity to at least one side and/or end of the vehicle, the system automatically operates the existing, factory installed air braking system of the vehicle to avoid a collision or mitigate the collision impact by concurrently pressurizing each of the rear and front pneumatic service brakes of the vehicle. Pressing the existing vehicle brake pedal deactivates the automatic braking system, thereby permitting the driver to take over control of braking at any time.

Claim (Index 23):
An automatic braking system for a vehicle having pneumatic brakes, which vehicle has a vehicle brake pedal and a plurality of wheels, each of said wheels being connected to a brake assembly and each of said wheels having a wheel sensor connected to the brake assembly of said wheel, the system comprising:\n a) an actuation apparatus comprising a plurality of solenoid operated pneumatic valves, wherein each solenoid operated pneumatic valve comprises a solenoid and wherein each solenoid operated pneumatic valve opens and remains open when its solenoid is energized and closes and/or remains closed when its solenoid is not energized, wherein each solenoid operated pneumatic valve is pneumatically paired with one of said anti-lock braking system control modules; b) a collision warning device directly or indirectly electrically connected said solenoid operated pneumatic valves of the actuation apparatus, wherein the collision warning device continuously monitors the presence of obstacles in front of the vehicle and continuously calculates a closure time of the vehicle with a detected obstacle, wherein said collision warning device causes the concurrent energizing of the solenoid of each solenoid operated pneumatic valve when said closure time is at or below a pre-set time to collision value, and causes each solenoid to remain independently energized unless i) or ii) or iii):\n i) said closure time increases to a value above said pre-set time to collision value, thereby de-energizing all of the solenoids of all of the solenoid operated pneumatic valves, thereby causing all of the solenoid operated pneumatic valves to concurrently close, thereby deactivating all automatic braking; or \n ii) at least one of said wheel sensors detects that the brake assembly it is connected to has locked, thereby de-energizing the solenoid of the solenoid operated pneumatic valve that is connected to the locked brake assembly independently of the other wheels, thereby closing the solenoid operated pneumatic valve connected to the locked brake assembly, thereby deactivating automatic braking for the locked brake assembly; or \n iii) the vehicle brake pedal is pressed; \n c) a first air pressure reservoir pneumatically connected to each solenoid operated pneumatic valve; and\n wherein opening the solenoid operated pneumatic valves activates automatic braking, wherein when the solenoid operated pneumatic valves are open, air flows from the first air pressure reservoir concurrently through each solenoid operated pneumatic valve and then concurrently flows toward all brake assemblies, thereby causing the concurrent engaging of all of said brake assemblies, and wherein pressing the vehicle brake pedal causes the solenoid of each open solenoid operated pneumatic valve to concurrently de-energize, thereby causing each of said open solenoid operated pneumatic valves to concurrently close, and thereby deactivating all automatic braking.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16188175', '15439261', '15961656', '14606485', '13483314']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4459598781040078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5398776393873362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4553516542323406
- Mean Citation Score: 331.67759399999994
- Max Citation Score: 391.01953
- Similarity Product: 298.0356209969526

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

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