PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751543
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "070000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle combination comprising a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle, each vehicle including wheels on different sides of the vehicle and wheel brakes associated with the wheels. A method for controlling the vehicle combination includes determining a yaw rate difference between a yaw rate of the tractor vehicle and a yaw rate of the trailer vehicle; determining, on the basis of the yaw rate difference, that an orientation of one of the vehicles deviates from an intended travel direction of the vehicle combination; and activating a wheel brake of the vehicle on only one side of the vehicle in order to counter the orientation deviation of the vehicle relative to the intended travel direction.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of controlling a vehicle combination having a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle, each of the trailer vehicle and the tractor vehicle having wheels located on opposed lateral sides thereof, and each of the wheels have a respective brake, the method comprising the following steps:\n determining a yaw rate of the tractor vehicle via a first yaw rate sensor, and determining a yaw rate of the trailer vehicle via a second yaw rate sensor; determining a yaw rate difference, via either a processing device or one of the first and the second yaw rate sensors, between the yaw rate of the tractor vehicle and the yaw rate of the trailer vehicle; determining, based on the yaw rate difference, when at least one of the tractor vehicle and the trailer vehicle is deviating from an intended travel direction of the vehicle combination; and activating, via a control device, at least one wheel brake located on only one of lateral side of the at least one of the tractor vehicle and the trailer vehicle that is deviating from the intended travel direction to counter the deviation from the intended travel direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30189
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11630735', '15526418', '13147350', '10708675', '14354568']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4467998391546798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861972267154463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4507395779107565
- Mean Citation Score: 219.639314
- Max Citation Score: 226.61993
- Similarity Product: 163.9787842189109

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

Dataset: test