PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "062000"]

Abstract:
When a malfunction occurs in an A-CPU among multiple CPUs, a retracting traveling control is performed to control a vehicle driving force with a CPU other than the A-CPU. During the retracting traveling control, a shift position is determined with a CPU other than the A-CPU according to an output signal of a shift sensor, and a reduction determination is performed to reduce a shift position, which is to be determined, to be less than a normal state. In this way, the shift position is determined and the retracting traveling is performed even during the retracting traveling control.

Claim (Index 9):
A vehicle control device equipped with a shift sensor, which is to send a plurality of signals according to a shift position being a manipulated position of a vehicle shift lever, the vehicle control device comprising:\n a drive control unit including a plurality of control circuits relevant to a control of a driving force of a vehicle and to determine the shift position according to an output signal of the shift sensor, wherein the drive control unit includes: a retracting traveling control unit to perform a retracting traveling control, when a malfunction occurs in one control circuit among the plurality of control circuits, to control the driving force of the vehicle with an other control circuit other than the control circuit in which a malfunction occurs; and a determination control unit\n to perform a reduction determination during the retracting traveling control to determine the shift position according to the output signal of the shift sensor with the other control circuit and \n to reduce the shift position, which is to be determined, compared with a normal state, \n the determination control unit is to maintain a latest shift position, which is determined with the other the control circuit, as a previous value when a malfunction occurs in one control circuit among the plurality of control circuits, and the determination control unit is, during the retracting traveling control,\n to determine that the shift position is a current value when the current value of the shift position determined with the other control circuit is same as the previous value, and \n to determine that the shift position is a neutral range or to limit a driving force of the vehicle within a safe level when the current value changes to a position different from the previous value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18367
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15794777', '15639751', '13255835', '15481847', '15500722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3709100867722941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724547150255317
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3810645495976179
- Mean Citation Score: 154.255876
- Max Citation Score: 163.71123
- Similarity Product: 122.18808998819948

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