PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "022000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle traveling control method includes determining a driver's intention for acceleration during vehicle traveling, predicting, when a determination is made that the driver has no intention for acceleration, which is superior between a first fuel consumption reduction effect by inertial traveling and a second fuel consumption reduction effect by deceleration energy regeneration, the inertial traveling making the vehicle travel, with power transmission disconnected between an engine and a drive wheel of the vehicle, and the deceleration energy regeneration inputting rotational power of the drive wheel of the vehicle to an electric motor, and performing inertial traveling when a prediction is made that the first fuel consumption reduction effect by inertial traveling is superior to the second fuel consumption reduction effect by deceleration energy regeneration.

Claim (Index 20):
A vehicle traveling control device including:\n an accelerator depression degree detector configured to detect accelerator depression degree by a driver; and a controller configured to control an electric motor and a clutch for transmitting power between an engine and a drive wheel and between the electric motor and the drive wheel, wherein, when the accelerator depression degree is no longer detected, the controller predicts which is superior between a first fuel consumption reduction effect by inertial traveling and a second fuel consumption reduction effect by deceleration energy regeneration, the inertial traveling making the vehicle travel, with power transmission disconnected between the engine and the drive wheel, and the deceleration energy regeneration inputting rotational power of the drive wheel to the electric motor, wherein, when a prediction is made that the first fuel consumption reduction effect by inertial traveling is superior to the second fuel consumption reduction effect by deceleration energy regeneration, the controller disconnects the engine from the drive wheel by the clutch, and wherein, when a prediction is made that the first fuel consumption reduction effect by inertial traveling is not superior to the second fuel consumption reduction effect by deceleration energy regeneration, the controller connects the motor to the drive wheel by the clutch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31034
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15753511', '15756894', '15746830', '14406132', '12937929']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4671991161976827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4853107670075636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4690102812786708
- Mean Citation Score: 214.706032
- Max Citation Score: 223.3571
- Similarity Product: 166.64746642742156

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