PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749035
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["280", "086750"]

Abstract:
The invention makes it easy to link wheel alignment inspections to improving stability when traveling and to suppressing uneven tire wear. The straight running state of a vehicle is verified (S 1 ), and the vehicle is placed on a tester in the straight running state (S 2 ). The wheel alignment of the vehicle in the straight running state is measured using the tester (S 3 ). The individual toe of each front wheel and each rear wheel is adjusted to eliminate differences between the left and right wheels (S 4 ). The wheel alignment, such as the included angle, is measured again, and the causes of any wheel alignment failures are narrowed down on the basis of the measurement results (S 5  to S 7 ). Wheel alignment failures impacting steering pull or uneven tire wear are evaluated on the basis of the results of the measurements in S 3  (S 8 ).

Claim (Index 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein in the second alignment measurement step, the setback and the caster of the left front wheel and the right front wheel are measured; and\n in the second evaluation step, when the setback is a predetermined size or more, a cause of the setback taking place is evaluated, based on at least either one of the following factors: whether or not the caster of the front wheels has a left-right difference; and the caster of which one of the left front wheel and the right front wheel has an abnormality.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16456
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11245836', '12404883', '15085490', '12671070', '10902138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.811263790735451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088034672792657
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7810177583898326
- Mean Citation Score: 225.738576
- Max Citation Score: 233.95349
- Similarity Product: 152.39753344032462

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