PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933269
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "029300"]

Abstract:
A failure prediction system having small boats operable by operators, each mounted with an outboard motor equipped with an engine and an Electronic Control Unit and a computer located in a land office connected to the ECU. The ECU acquires boat ID assigned to one small boat on which one operator boards and his personal ID, accesses the computer to acquire past manipulation data of the acquired personal ID for all boats, acquires manipulation data of the one operator during current run, merge the data with past data to generate merged data. Then, it select a parameter in the generated data and set a normal value range by the parameter, assesses whether parameter in the data during current run is within the range, and determines the outboard motor mounted on the one boat is in failure when the parameter is out of the range.

Claim (Index 11):
A small boat failure prediction method, having:\n a plurality of small boats each mounted with an outboard motor equipped with an internal combustion engine, a steering device and an electronic control unit, the small boats being operable by one of a plurality of operators through manipulation of the steering device such that the electronic control unit controls operation of the outboard motor in response to the manipulation of the steering device; and a computer connected to the electronic control unit equipped on each of the small boats through a communication means; comprising the steps of: ID acquiring of boat ID assigned to one of the small boats on which one of the operators boards and personal ID of the one of the operators on board; past manipulation data acquiring by accessing the computer to acquire past manipulation data associated with the acquired personal ID of the one of the operators for all of the small boats operated by the one of the operators; manipulation data merging by acquiring manipulation data of the one of the operators on the one of the small boats during current run, merging the manipulation data during the current run with the past manipulation data to generate merged manipulation data, and transmitting the generated merged manipulation data to the computer; normal value range setting by selecting a parameter based on data having predesignated correlation in the generated merged manipulation data, and setting a normal value range based on the selected parameter; parameter assessing by assessing whether parameter corresponding to the selected parameter in the manipulation data during the current run is within the set normal range; and failure predicting by determining the outboard motor mounted on the one of the boats is in failure when the parameter is out of the set normal range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15933255', '11823366', '15448295', '11715899', '10670383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3739523923342018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771815133734856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3842753044381302
- Mean Citation Score: 162.59240599999995
- Max Citation Score: 176.28972
- Similarity Product: 130.45342777410505

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