PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus for an automatic traveling vehicle includes a position sensor and circuitry. The position sensor is to detect a vehicle position of the automatic traveling vehicle. The circuitry is configured to control the automatic traveling vehicle to travel along a first route, a first turn route connected to the first route, a straight route connected to the first turn route, a second turn route connected to the straight route, and a second route connected to the second turn route in this order, and to calculate the straight route extending from a reference point on the first turn route to the second turn route such that the straight route is tangent to the second turn route.

Claim (Index 10):
A control apparatus for an automatic traveling vehicle, comprising:\n a position sensor to detect a vehicle position of the automatic traveling vehicle; a travel state sensor to detect a traveling direction of the automatic traveling vehicle at the vehicle position; and circuitry configured to\n control the automatic traveling vehicle to travel along a first route, a first turn route connected to the first route in this order, \n calculate a candidate straight route connecting the vehicle position that is periodically detected by the position sensor while the automatic traveling vehicle travels along the first turn route and a circle connected to a second route which is targeted after the first turn route such that the candidate straight route is tangent to the circle, \n determine, based on an angle made by the traveling direction and the candidate straight route, whether the candidate straight route is a straight route along which the automatic traveling vehicle is to travel after the first turn route, \n calculate a second turn route along the circle between the straight route and the second route, and \n control the automatic traveling vehicle to travel along the straight route, the second turn route, and the second route in this order.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90698
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15841296', '15385760', '15620839', '15626184', '15624718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4403107848331464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840865415725079
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4446883605070826
- Mean Citation Score: 214.029524
- Max Citation Score: 236.86969
- Similarity Product: 183.53845363465308

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

Dataset: test