PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["701", "036000"]

Abstract:
A control device for a vehicle includes a grille shutter ECU that is connected to a LIN communication line and controls driving of a grille shutter, and an engine ECU that is connected to the LIN communication line so as to be able to establish communication with the grille shutter ECU. In the case of detecting an abnormality in the communication, if a predetermine threshold time or more has elapsed since a start of the vehicle, and if cumulative time that a detection result of a vehicle speed sensor is equal to or more than a predetermined vehicle speed threshold value, is equal to or more than a cumulative threshold value, and a number of starts of the vehicle is equal to or more than a predetermined trip number, the engine ECU determines that the detected abnormality is a failure in the LIN communication.

Claim (Index 4):
The control device for the vehicle according to  claim 2 , wherein the control unit is a grille shutter control unit that controls opening and closing of a grille shutter to introduce air into a cooling target of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16104256', '14744651', '14746887', '13695474', '14889646']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4632663831771863
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4753475645076929
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.464474501310237
- Mean Citation Score: 193.238876
- Max Citation Score: 212.9813
- Similarity Product: 170.9506029928446

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

Dataset: test