PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "051000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a vehicle transmission includes electrically connecting a Transmission or Powertrain Control Unit (TCU or PCU) to the vehicle transmission, the TCU or PCU controlling operation of the transmission and having switchable power on a high side, and switchable ground on a low side of a plurality of solenoids in a shared functional grouping configuration, proportionally controlling an amount of current through a load such as a solenoid via controlling an amount of time current is being sunk through the solenoid to ground and controlling an amount of time current is provided via an adaptable recirculation path in the TCU or PCU, the recirculation path minimizing current decay when the solenoid is driven in an OFF state. The TCU or PCU having a single hardware layout, but being electronically adaptable to control a plurality of transmission types and solenoid architectures based on any desired functional solenoid grouping.

Claim (Index 10):
A system for controlling a motor vehicle transmission disposed within a motor vehicle comprises:\n a transmission control unit (TCU) or powertrain control unit (PCU) electrically connected via a plurality of input and output pins to a motor vehicle transmission, the TCU or PCU having switchable power on a high side of a plurality of transmission solenoids in a shared configuration, and a switchable ground on a low side of the plurality of solenoids; a power source providing power to the TCU or PCU; the TCU or PCU having a computer readable memory; and a processor configured to execute control logic stored in the computer readable memory, the control logic comprising:\n a first control logic for initializing the TCU or PCU to recognize the motor vehicle transmission; \n a second control logic for utilizing the TCU or PCU to control operation of the transmission; \n a third control logic proportionally controlling an amount of current flowing through a solenoid of the transmission via a current recirculation path in the TCU or PCU, the current recirculation path minimizing a decay of current when the solenoid is driven in an OFF state; and \n a fourth control logic selectively initiating current flow through one of a plurality of current recirculation paths, \n wherein the TCU or PCU includes a single hardware design configuration, and the TCU or PCU is electronically adaptable to control a plurality of motor vehicle transmission types and solenoid architectures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06494
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13706400', '15199141', '11857899', '14847456', '11516322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3843055860144565
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4970424661464582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3955792740276567
- Mean Citation Score: 188.678012
- Max Citation Score: 193.21178
- Similarity Product: 121.7674128192353

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

Dataset: test