PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["123", "406230"]

Abstract:
A system and method for dynamically varying an amount slippage of a Torque Converter Clutch (TCC) provided between an engine and a transmission of a vehicle in response to non-powertrain factors. By varying a slippage output signal, the amount of TCC slippage between the engine and the transmission can be adjusted. Small amounts of slippage, relative to large amounts of slippage, provide (a) improved vehicle fuel economy, but (b) induce more powertrain noise and vibration in the vehicle cabin. By dynamically adjusting the slippage, a tradeoff between improved fuel economy vs. a satisfying driver experience can be realized.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , further comprising:\n selecting a plurality of candidate firing fractions from an allowed list of firing fractions; calculating a candidate cylinder load for each of the plurality of candidate firing fractions such that the combination of the candidate cylinder load and each associated candidate firing fraction substantially yields the desired engine output, each such combination being a candidate skip fire firing profile; selecting one of the candidate skip fire firing profiles as the operational skip fire firing profile based at least in part on the noise and vibration masking level; and operating the internal combustion engine based at least in part on the operational skip fire firing profile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88333
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15681601', '15148826', '14638908', '14992779', '15679419']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7972006802634389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5754993183443162
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750305440715266
- Mean Citation Score: 424.104058
- Max Citation Score: 535.14825
- Similarity Product: 427.53013269799936

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