PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763352
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["192", "003300"]

Abstract:
A vehicle includes an engine, a continuously variable transmission and a torque converter that has a lock-up clutch. The torque converter is arranged between the engine and the continuously variable transmission. The vehicle further includes engine accessories such as an air conditioner compressor and alternator that are driven by the engine. In this vehicle, a slip control is executed that produces a predetermined slip rotational state by controlling a lock-up capacity of the lock-up clutch. During slip control of the lock-up clutch, the engine-equipped vehicle executes cooperative control that suppresses load fluctuations of engine accessories such as the air conditioner compressor and the alternator.

Claim (Index 7):
A vehicle lock-up control device for a vehicle having a torque converter with a lock-up clutch that is arranged between an engine and a transmission, and an engine accessory to be driven by the engine, the vehicle lock-up control device comprising:\n a slip control unit that executes slip control to produce a predetermined slip rotational state by controlling a lock-up capacity of the lock-up clutch, an engine accessory load control unit that executes an engine accessory load control according to a load fluctuation request of the engine accessory, and a cooperative control unit that executes a cooperative control process to suppress load fluctuations of the engine accessory during the slip control of the lock-up clutch, the cooperative control unit being configured to delay a switching operation of one of the engine accessory whose load fluctuates between two values of on and off in response to a request to switch the engine accessory during the slip control of the lock-up clutch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11321
- Patent Class: 192.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763266', '15316244', '15318415', '15327201', '16067636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8255983819132667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5055029898534015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7935888427072803
- Mean Citation Score: 331.354842
- Max Citation Score: 395.0926
- Similarity Product: 355.0798924888134

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