PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "431000"]

Abstract:
A control system that steers a tractor vehicle with a trailer has at least one electronic control unit which has interfaces to a first sensor device for sensing the current bend angle, a second sensor device for sensing the required driving space of the tractor-trailer combination, and a third sensor device for sensing the driving space which is present. The control unit also has a collision prediction unit for comparing the required driving space with the driving space which is present while taking into account the current bend angle, and a collision prevention unit which determines, through interaction with the collision prediction unit, a bend angle which is the maximum permissible one for preventing a collision. The collision prevention unit indicates a setting of a bend angle which exceeds the maximum permissible bend angle as critical in terms of a collision and prevents said setting or permits it only after a predefined delay.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of steering a tractor vehicle with a trailer forming a tractor-trailer combination, the method comprising the acts of:\n sensing a current bend angle of the tractor-trailer combination; sensing a required driving space of the tractor-trailer combination; sensing a driving space that is presently available; comparing the required driving space with the driving space presently available while factoring into account the current bend angle; determining a bend angle which is a maximum permissible bend angle to prevent a collision; and indicating a setting of the bend angle which exceeds the maximum permissible bend angle as critical and preventing said setting of the bend angle which exceeds the maximum permissible bend angle or permitting said setting only after a predefined delay.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13365475', '13883690', '14288775', '15767565', '12798645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6833854248813592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4705604489389671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6621029272871201
- Mean Citation Score: 172.486824
- Max Citation Score: 176.544
- Similarity Product: 144.35260469055177

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test